At his first speech, when he saw a supporter in the crowd being attacked, Lincoln grabbed the assailant by his " neck and the seat of his trousers " and threw him.

The damage caused by Sherman's March to the Sea through Georgia in 1864 was limited to a swath, but neither Lincoln nor his commanders saw destruction as the main goal, but rather defeat of the Confederate armies.

Abraham Lincoln consistently made preserving the Union the central goal of the war, though he increasingly saw slavery as a crucial issue and made ending it an additional goal.

He once suggested that God saw fit to have Lincoln assassinated so that he could become president.

This emphasis is, in part, a reflection of the Methodist movement's earliest roots in The Oxford Holy Club, founded by John Wesley, his brother Charles, George Whitefield and others as a response to what they saw as the pervasive permissiveness and debauchery of Oxford University, and specifically Lincoln College when they attended.

The Whigs, both northern and southern, strongly opposed expansion into Texas, which they ( including Whig Congressman Abraham Lincoln ) saw as an unprincipled land grab.

As he traveled by rail to Lincoln, he saw farmers and others standing by the tracks, hoping for a glimpse of the new Democratic nominee.

Although he probably had no doubt about Simnel's true identity, Lincoln saw an opportunity for revenge and reparation.

Although McClellan was assuaged by supportive comments Lincoln made to him, in time he saw the change of command very differently, describing it as a part of an intrigue " to secure the failure of the approaching campaign.

Regardless of when his land patent was granted, Lincoln built his place of business, his saw mill, and abode, near the eastern boundary of his land, along the Rouge River.

Lincoln High School was constructed around the turn of the 20th century, which also saw the introduction of electricity, telephones, and automobiles to the town.

Lynda also wrote that a friend saw Gravano driving Louie Milito's Lincoln and was able to identify it by damage done to the car before Louie Milito went missing.

Lincoln Kirstein, a young American arts patron recently graduated from Harvard University, saw Les Ballets 1933.

2004 saw Geraint appear at the Lincoln in New York as Edmund to Christopher Plummer's King Lear.

Although McClellan was assuaged by supportive comments Lincoln made to him, in time he saw the change of command very differently, describing it as a part of an intrigue " to secure the failure of the approaching campaign.

He was an intensely partisan Democrat who saw blacks as an inferior race and Abraham Lincoln as a despot and dunce.

There were only small changes for 1970 as Lincoln saw no need to break a clearly winning formula.

1971 saw the Golden Anniversary for the Lincoln marque, and the third and final year of Mark III production.

2010 saw the introduction of the Lincoln Cent with the new Union Shield reverse which replaced the familiar Lincoln Memorial reverse used from 1959 to 2008.

The IS saw a breakaway faction in the 1980s called Socialist Action led by Tom O ' Lincoln and Carole Ferrier which later rejoined the IS.

After drawing the first four games of the season, Pools then lost the next four before finally recording their first win against Lincoln City in the ninth game ; a further six games without a win were enough to see the club looking in serious danger of being the first club to be automatically relegated from the Football League and saw Horner depart.

On 3 May 2002 Lincoln successfully petitioned to go into administration but the financial crisis would leave the first team squad bereft of players as the day saw five senior players – Jason Barnett, Grant Brown, David Cameron, Steve Holmes and Justin Walker – released at the end of their contracts with a sixth, Lee Thorpe, departing for Leyton Orient.

The son of a military man who died when he was young, Dudley saw military service during the French Wars of Religion, and then acquired some legal training before entering the service of his likely kinsman the Earl of Lincoln.

Since she could not act, one part suited her as well as any other, and so she was the first person to offer Mr. Lincoln a glass of water, holding it up to the box, high above her head, to Miss Harris, who had asked for it.

On June 19, 1862, endorsed by Lincoln, Congress passed an act banning slavery on all federal territory.

The new Republican Party, which was created in opposition to the act, aimed to stop the expansion of slavery and soon emerged as the dominant political party in the North, electing its first president, Abraham Lincoln, in 1860.

Lincoln gave his most comprehensive argument against slavery and the provisions of the act in Peoria, Illinois, on October 16, the Peoria Speech.

* December 31 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union, thus dividing Virginia into two pieces.

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.

Rains began his career in the London theatre, having a success in the title role of John Drinkwater's play Ulysses S. Grant, the follow-up to the playwright's major hit Abraham Lincoln, and travelled to Broadway in the late 1920s to act in leading roles in such plays as Shaw's The Apple Cart and in the dramatisations of The Constant Nymph, and Pearl S. Buck's novel The Good Earth, as a Chinese farmer.

Lincoln County was created by an act of the West Virginia Legislature on February 23, 1867, from parts of Boone, Cabell, Kanawha and Putnam counties.

However, Clark County, Nevada, including Las Vegas, was separated from Lincoln County effective July 1, 1908, by act of the Nevada Legislature.

Lincoln successfully persuaded Congress to pass a special act legalizing Dahlgren's appointment to the yard, and, in July 1862, Dahlgren was promoted to the rank of captain and made chief of the Bureau of Ordnance.

The act was approved by President Abraham Lincoln, and it provided for the construction of railroads from the Missouri River to the Pacific as a war measure for the preservation of the Union.

Although Benjamin Lincoln raised a militia force and put down the rebellion, it highlighted the weakness of both the military and defects in the Articles of Confederation that hampered Congressional ability to act on the matter.

Immediately after Lincoln's election in November 1860, he wrote to his brother, Thomas Hunt Morgan, then a student at Kenyon College in northern Ohio, " Our State will not I hope secedeI have no doubt but Lincoln will make a good President at least we ought to give him a fair trial & then if he commits some overt act all the South will be a unit.

There is no reason to think that future wartime presidents will act differently from Lincoln, Wilson, or

In an act approved by a low margin on July 14, 1870, the United States Congress granted Mrs. Lincoln a life pension in the amount of $ 3, 000 a year.

The same day that Lincoln arrived at Petersham, the state legislature passed bills authorizing a state of martial law, giving the governor broad powers to act against the rebels.

::" Canon and prebendary of the collegiate church of St. Stephen in Westminster Palace ( until 1539 );"; 1526 Collated: Warden of the church of Stratford-Upon-Avon, Preceptor of the hospital of St. Wulstans, Magister, Bachelor of Civil law, acta capitularia ( Chapter act book ) Coventry & Lichfield diocese 1528 Collated: Doctor of Canon law, Lincoln Cathedral, Doctor of Civil law, St. Pauls, Rector of Gloucestershire, Weston-sub-Edge, Lichfield, Southwell and St. Paul ’ s, Cathedrals 1529 Collated: Magister, Doctor of Civil law Gloucester, 1539 Collated: Archdeacon of Gloucester.

The Times published its first report from the United States on December 4, and its correspondent, W. H. Russell, wrote of American reactions, “ There is so much violence of spirit among the lower orders of the people and they are … so saturated with pride and vanity that any honorable concession … would prove fatal to its authors .” Times editor John T. Delane, however, took a moderate stance and warned the people not to “ regard the act in the worst light ” and to question whether it made sense that the United States, despite British misgivings about Seward that went back to the earliest days of the Lincoln administration, would “ force a quarrel upon the Powers of Europe .”

In the interim Jefferson asked Lincoln to act temporarily as secretary of state, which he did from March 5, 1801 until Madison assumed his duties on May 2.

This act was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862.

During the third act, a Confederate sympathizer named John Wilkes Booth shot and killed Abraham Lincoln.

In 1861, Lincoln appointed Nicolay to be his private secretary, which was the first official act of his new administration.

Hazen publicly criticized Secretary of War Robert Todd Lincoln for his handling of the affair, citing his refusal to send further assistance after the failure of Garlington's rescue mission, until Greely's wife, Henrietta, forced Lincoln to act in response to outraged public opinion.