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historyspace a place for history 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.