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On this day, Abraham Lincoln became President of the United States, without any support from southern states. He ran against John C. Breckinridge, a Southern Democrat, John Bell, a Constitutional Union candidate, and Northern Democrat Stephen Douglas, a U.S. senator from Illinois.
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Abraham Lincoln became the 16th President of the United States on March 4, 1861. At this time, seven states had already seceded from the Union.
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Started at Fort Sumer, South Carolina with Confederate warships firing at Union troops.
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Lincoln said the Gettysburg Address because he felt that Americans needed to remember the sacrifice made by soldiers lost in the war,
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While attending a play, President Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate Sympathizer. He died the day after.
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Last battle was fought at Palmito Ranch, Texas.
