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Elected as a Whig to Illinois House of Representatives.
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Marries Mary Todd on November 4 in parlor of her sister's Springfield mansion,
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Confederates open fire on the Fort Sumter, South Carolina, The Civil War had started.
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President Lincoln's son Willie dies.
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http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/' >The Emancipation Proclamation</a>
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Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox Court House.
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President Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth on Good Friday April 14, 1865.
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Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth on Good Friday April 14, 1865.