As a captain, he developed a reputation for pragmatism and integrity. Once, faced with a rail fence during practice maneuvers and forgetting the parade-ground instructions to direct his men over it, he simply ordered them to fall out and reassemble on the other side a minute later.
Another time, he stopped his men before they executed a wandering Native American as a spy. Stepping in front of their raised muskets, Lincoln is said to have challenged his men to combat for the terrified native's life. His men stood down. After the war, he studied law and campaigned for a seat on the Illinois State Legislature. Although not elected in his first attempt, Lincoln persevered and won the position in , serving as a Whig.
Only one lived to adulthood. The deep melancholy that pervaded the Lincoln family, with occasional detours into outright madness, is in some ways sourced in their close relationship with death. Lincoln, a self-described "prairie lawyer," focused on his all-embracing law practice in the early s after one term in Congress from to He joined the new Republican party—and the ongoing argument over sectionalism—in A series of heated debates in with Stephen A.
Douglas , the sponsor of the Kansas-Nebraska Act , over slavery and its place in the United States forged Lincoln into a prominent figure in national politics. On November 6, , Lincoln won the presidential election without the support of a single Southern state.
Booth hoped to revive the Confederate cause by killing Lincoln. He shot Lincoln in the back of the head, then fled the theater. He was shot during his eventual capture and died from his wounds.
The wounded and unconscious president was carried to a boardinghouse across the street, where he died the next morning, April 15, Presidents by Brianna Dumont, revised for digital by Avery Hurt. All rights reserved. Personality Quizzes. Funny Fill-In. Amazing Animals. Weird But True! Party Animals. His assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was a strong supporter of the Confederacy.
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