Discussions with his cabinet revealed Lincoln planned short-term military control over southern states, until readmission under the control of southern Unionists.

Booth and a group of co-conspirators originally plotted to kidnap Lincoln, but later planned to kill him, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Secretary of State William Seward in a bid to help the Confederacy's cause.

The Old Soldiers Home, where Booth planned to kidnap Lincoln

In response to prodding from Lincoln and general-in-chief Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, Burnside planned a late fall offensive ; he communicated his plan to Halleck on November 9.

Historians debate if Lincoln gave up on African American colonization at the end of 1863 or if he actually planned to continue this policy up until 1865.

Lincoln Tunnel Helix and toll plaza circa 1955, with the south tube under constructionWith the creation of the Interstate Highway System in 1956, the approach to the Lincoln Tunnel was planned to become an Interstate highway along with present-day Route 3, which itself was not included in the Interstate Highway System because New Jersey thought it would be too expensive to bring it up to Interstate Highway standards.

Lincoln Village was started in 1955 as a planned community by a real estate subsidiary of Nationwide Insurance.

* Other routes planned for closure which survived included: Settle-Carlisle Line, Ipswich – Lowestoft, Manchester – Sheffield via Edale ( but the Woodhead Line and Bakewell routes closed instead ), Ayr – Stranraer, Glasgow – Kilmarnock, Glasgow – Edinburgh via Shotts, Barrow – Whitehaven, Middlesbrough – Whitby, York – Harrogate, Leeds / Bradford – Ilkley, Nottingham – Lincoln, Boston – Skegness, Birkenhead – Wrexham, Liverpool – Southport ( and other Merseyside commuter routes ), Bury-Manchester, Leicester – Peterborough, Hastings – Ashford and Ryde – Shanklin.

In March 2009 AgResearch announced that it planned to merge with Lincoln University, an idea that was later scaled back to " sharing of knowledge ".

The original route planned in 1925 ran from Wadsworth, Nevada east to Annapolis, Maryland along several auto trails including the Lincoln Highway, Midland Trail, and the National Old Trails Road.

The first Lincoln Continental was developed as Edsel Ford's one-off personal vehicle, though it is believed he planned all along to put the model into production if successful.

The building, adjacent to the planned Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, was an ornate 12-story structure with a columned entranceway.

The Mid-Manhattan Expressway was a planned but never built expressway that would have crossed Midtown Manhattan in the vicinity of 30th Street, connecting the Lincoln Tunnel between Manhattan and New Jersey to the Queens Midtown Tunnel between Manhattan and Long Island.

Whatever rumors President Lincoln had received about Confederates abandoning Norfolk were now confirmed ; a tug deserted and brought news that the evacuation was well underway and that CSS Virginia, with her accompanying small gunboats, planned to proceed up the James River or York River.

They planned the laying out of streets of the present community of East Los Angeles and gifted East Side Park ( the present Lincoln Park ) to the city of Los Angeles.

Although he planned to study law with Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, he joined Theophilus Lyle Dickey's practice in Ottawa, Illinois, instead.

Early in the morning before the march, Nixon met with protesters briefly at the Lincoln Memorial but nothing was resolved and the protest went on as planned.

During the presidential election of 1860, the Blood Tubs reportedly planned to abduct, or possibly assassinate, then President-elect Abraham Lincoln when he visited Baltimore.

As part of the commitment, NXEC planned to introduce a two-hourly service between Lincoln Central and London Kings Cross, starting in 2009.

In first decade of the 21st century that land was developed as Playa Vista, a planned mixed-use community east of Lincoln Boulevard.

In his Message of December 2, 1862, he put his purpose and his policy in these words -- which I would call the Lincoln Law of Liberty-and-Union: `` In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free ''.

The very fact that they came so near to winning by the wrong method, war, led directly to their losing both the war and the wrong thing they fought for, since it forced Lincoln to free their slaves as a military measure.

In 1830, fearing a milk sickness outbreak along the Ohio River, the Lincoln family moved west, where they settled on public land in Macon County, Illinois, another free, non-slave state.

Lincoln warned that " The Slave Power " was threatening the values of republicanism, and accused Douglas of distorting the values of the Founding Fathers that all men are created equal, while Douglas emphasized his Freeport Doctrine, that local settlers were free to choose whether to allow slavery or not, and accused Lincoln of having joined the abolitionists.

Lincoln stated Douglas's popular sovereignty theory was a threat to the nation's morality and that Douglas represented a conspiracy to extend slavery to free states.

Turnout was 82. 2 percent, with Lincoln winning the free Northern states, as well as California and Oregon.

On August 6, 1861, Lincoln signed the Confiscation Act that authorized judiciary proceedings to confiscate and free slaves who were used to support the Confederate war effort.

Although Lincoln believed it was not within Congress's power to free the slaves within the states, he approved the bill in deference to the legislature.

* The They Might Be Giants song " Where Your Eyes Don't Go " on their second album, Lincoln, featured the lines " You're free to come and go / Or talk like Kurtis Blow.

On March 17, 1879, the pair arranged that the Kid would act as an informant and testify against others involved in the Lincoln County War, and, it has been claimed, that in return the Kid would be " scot free with a pardon in pocket for all misdeeds.

In 1945, the title ballad ( music by Earl Robinson, lyrics by Millard Lampell ) from the 20th Century Fox World War II film A Walk In The Sun mentions the Lincoln Highway: " It's the same road they had / Coming out of Stalingrad, / It's that old Lincoln Highway back home, / It's wherever men fight to be free.

Dinwiddie County was the birthplace of Elizbeth ( Burwell ) Hobbs Keckly, a free black dressmaker who worked for two presidents ' wives: Mrs. Jefferson Davis and later Mary Todd Lincoln.

The 7th Cavalry departed from Fort Lincoln on May 17, 1876, part of a larger army force planning to round up remaining free Indians.

Kyle helped Abraham Lincoln free the slaves later on in the war.

On March 11, 1862, Lincoln removed McClellan as general-in-chief, leaving him in command of only the Army of the Potomac, ostensibly so that McClellan would be free to devote all his attention to the move on Richmond.

Lee's retreat gave Abraham Lincoln the opportunity he needed to issue his Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in Confederate territory to be free.

After the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation of President Abraham Lincoln, slaves in Union-occupied territories were declared free ; more freedmen came to the Trent River camp for protection.

Either episode resulted in the Brasenose student's death, and ever since, on Ascension Day, Lincoln College has invited in members of Brasenose College every year through the one door connecting the two colleges, for free beer as penance.

Significantly, the free state legal philosophies of both Abraham Lincoln and Salmon P. Chase ( Chief Justice, Senator, and early Ohio law author ) were derived from the Northwest Ordinance.

" Taylor is one with most American thinkers from Washington to Jefferson to Lincoln in doubting that the free Negro could ever be anything but a problem for American politics.

* Damrosch Park an outdoor amphitheater with a bowl-style stage known as the Guggenheim Band Shell ; used for free Lincoln Center Out of Doors presentations

Hopkins also pledged financial and logistic support to Lincoln, in particular the free use of the B & O railway system.