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Lincoln learned from his chief of staff General Henry Halleck, a student of the European strategist Jomini, of the critical need to control strategic points, such as the Mississippi River ; he also knew well the importance of Vicksburg and understood the necessity of defeating the enemy's army, rather than simply capturing territory.
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On March 17, Booth learned that Lincoln would be attending a performance of the play Still Waters Run Deep at a hospital near the Soldier's Home.
Booth later learned that Lincoln had changed his plans at the last moment to attend a reception at the National Hotel in Washington where, coincidentally, Booth was then staying.
This bill was supported by some of the most able and learned men in England, including the Earl of Northumberland, the Bishop of Lincoln, the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, the Attorney General for England and Wales, the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and the Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
William Brooke, a bookseller in Lincoln, may have helped him with Latin ; which he may also have learned at the school of Thomas Bainbridge.
But by the help of a learned Jew in Lincoln he found out the true nature of the discovery which had dawned on him.
His theological writings reveal a continual interest in the natural world as a major resource for theological reflection and a unique ability to read Greek sources ( if he ever learned Hebrew it would be not until he became bishop of Lincoln ).
The future president frequently walked to Boonville to borrow books and watch local attorney John Brackenridge argue cases, thus earning Boonville the distinction of being " where Lincoln learned the law.
One of the most learned statesmen of the era, he specialized in foreign affairs, working closely with Abraham Lincoln to keep the British and the French from intervening on the side of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
He was widely considered to be the author of the infamous Goldwater line, " Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice ; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue ," but revealed that he had encountered it in a letter from Lincoln historian Harry Jaffa and later learned it was a paraphrase of a passage from Cicero.
Sumner took these letters to Lincoln, who had just learned of the official British demand.
Lord Lincoln lived all his life in Australia, and reportedly learned of his succession from a British newspaper.
Having learned that John Archibald Campbell, an Alabaman serving on the Supreme Court, had decided to resign in light of his state's secession, President Lincoln proposed to appoint Crittenden to the vacant seat.
Lincoln became a surveyor for Sangamon County and Glasscock was a surveyor in Texas but it is not known if the two learned their surveyor skills together.
Merrick discovers that Lincoln has learned the truth, forcing Lincoln to escape.
Once Spofford learned of the retirement of Librarian of Congress John G. Stephenson, Spofford gathered enough political endorsements for the job which later led President Abraham Lincoln to promote Spofford to the post of Librarian of Congress in 1864.
Shortly after arriving at Seward's home, Meigs learned of the assassination of Lincoln.
Weisberg learned to duplicate the autograph of Lincoln.
The only other related name Parker learned was " Lincoln ," and Foswell cites rumors that " L. Thompson Lincoln " was the Big Man, though Foswell admits that his investigation has led him to believe that Lincoln is not the Big Man.
On the journalist commenting that he seemed unexcited, Lincoln replied: " Young man, I have lived for seventy-five years and I have learned to take things as they come ".
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Like Lincoln, he can distinguish his relation to God from the constitutional responsibilities a questionable decision exacts of him.
After he had finished the first two volumes of his Lincoln, Sandburg went to work assembling a book of songs out of hobo and childhood days and from the memory of songs others had taught him.
Isaac Pitt, one of the men from Lincoln, had taken a musket ball in his belly ; ;
Abraham Lincoln ( February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 ) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.
Lincoln, a moderate from a swing state, secured the Republican Party nomination.
As the leader of the moderate faction of the Republican party, Lincoln found his policies and personality were " blasted from all sides ": Radical Republicans demanded harsher treatment of the South, War Democrats desired more compromise, Copperheads despised him, and irreconcilable secessionists plotted his death.
Lincoln also agreed with the customary obligation of a son to give his father all earnings from work done outside the home until age 21.
Lincoln became increasingly distant from his father, in part because of his father's lack of education.
In 1840, Lincoln became engaged to Mary Todd, who was from a wealthy slave-holding family in Lexington, Kentucky.
Abraham Lincoln suffered from " melancholy ", a condition which now is referred to as clinical depression.
He partnered with Stephen T. Logan from 1841 until 1844, when he began his practice with William Herndon, whom Lincoln thought " a studious young man ".
Lincoln also supported the Wilmot Proviso, which, if it had been adopted, would have banned slavery in any U. S. territory won from Mexico.
Lincoln handled many transportation cases in the midst of the nation's western expansion, particularly the conflicts arising from the operation of river barges under the many new railroad bridges.
In late 1854, Lincoln ran as a Whig for the U. S. Senate seat from Illinois.
Then and throughout the war, Lincoln came under heavy, often vituperative attack from antiwar Democrats, called Copperheads.
In addition, Lincoln had to contend with reinforcing strong Union sympathies in the border slave states and keeping the war from becoming an international conflict.
To learn technical military terms, Lincoln borrowed and studied Henry Halleck's book, Elements of Military Art and Science from the Library of Congress.
President Lincoln ( center right ) with, from left, Generals Sherman, Grant and Admiral Porter – 1868 painting of events aboard the River Queen ( steamboat ) | River Queen in March, 1865
Meade's failure to capture Lee's army as it retreated from Gettysburg, and the continued passivity of the Army of the Potomac, persuaded Lincoln that a change in command was needed.
During his raid on Washington, D. C. in 1864, Lincoln was watching the combat from an exposed position ; Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes shouted at him, " Get down, you damn fool, before you get shot!
Lincoln spent many hours a week talking to politicians from across the land and using his patronage powers — greatly expanded over peacetime — to hold the factions of his party together, build support for his own policies, and fend off efforts by Radicals to drop him from the 1864 ticket.
When Lincoln vetoed the bill, the Radicals retaliated by refusing to seat representatives elected from Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee.
* Abraham Lincoln: A Resource Guide from the Library of Congress
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