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Designed by: Lisa Pennington/14 June 2007
Quote: “government of
the people, by the
people, for the people
shall not perish from
the earth.”
Gender: Male
Age: 56
Location: Washington,
D.C.
SOL USI.9d: TLW
describe the role of
Abraham Lincoln in
events leading to and
during the war.
General:
Music: Beethoven and Mozart
Books: The Life of George Washington,
anything by Shakespeare
Heroes: George Washington, my step-mother
Details
Status: Married to Mary Todd
Hometown: Nolin Creek, Kentucky
Children: 4, but only one survived to adulthood
Education: Self-educated (only 18 months of
formal education)
Latest Blog Entry:
April 14, 1865: The past few days have been a
blur! I have done nothing but work around the
clock. I am taking tonight off, and will take Mary to
see Our American Cousin at the theater tonight. I
could use a break.
April 9, 1865: At last! The war is over! General
Lee surrendered to General Grant today at
Appomattox. I know we now face a long and
difficult road, but we must bring the country back
together.
About Me: My name is Abraham Lincoln, and I am
the President of the United States. We are
currently involved in a Civil War, and I am trying my
best to bring the country back together. I think the
Southern states are wrong for seceding, and I am
determined to bring them back into the Union, even
if I have to use force. We are one country, not a
collection of independent states! I also believe that
slavery is wrong, and issued the Emancipation
Proclamation to free all the slaves in Confederate
controlled areas.
Who I’d Like to Meet: Those interested in
preserving the Union, abolitionists, anyone who
wants to bring true equality to all of the citizens of
the United States, and anyone who wants to create
a unified nation where states’ rights are no longer
dominant.
Friends Space:
Ulysses S. Grant
Harriet “Moses” Tubman
Occupation: President of the United States
Past Blogs:
Frederick Douglass
Comments:
Mary
October 1, 1863: For three days fighting
lasted at Gettysburg in July. I am dedicating
part of the battlefield next month. This are the
remarks I plan to give:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers
brought forth on this continent a new nation,
conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war,
testing whether that nation, or any nation, so
conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
We are met on a great battle-field of that war.
We have come to dedicate a portion of that
field, as a final resting place for those who
here gave their lives that that nation might live.
It is altogether fitting and proper that we should
do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—
we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—
this ground. The brave men, living and dead,
who struggled here, have consecrated it, far
above our poor power to add or detract. The
world will little note, nor long remember what
we say here, but it can never forget what they
did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be
dedicated here to the unfinished work which
they who fought here have thus far so nobly
advanced. It is rather for us to be here
dedicated to the great task remaining before
us—that from these honored dead we take
increased devotion to that cause for which
they gave the last full measure of devotion—
that we here highly resolve that these dead
shall not have died in vain—that this nation,
under God, shall have a new birth of
freedom—and that government of the people,
by the people, for the people, shall not perish
Abe, I can’t wait to go to the
theater tonight!
Abe, I think that soon we will have
broken these Rebs.
I finished the latest edition of The
Northern Star. I put a copy in the mail to you.
Abraham, thank you for the issuing
the Emancipation Proclamation! You have made a
from the earth.
lot of people very happy.