More Events in My Career

The Emancipation Proclamation

The Emancipation Proclamation,

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_proclamation)was a set of two orders ending slavery, in the southern states that made up the confederacy. I issued it during the American Civil War. The first order that I issued, was on September 22, 1862, and it declared the freedom of all slaves in the Confederate States of America.

The second order, that was issued January 1st, 1863, and it named ten specific states where it would apply.(wikipedia) Even though most slaves weren't freed immediately, the day that the Proclamation went into effect, it brought freedom to thousands of slaves.

Lincoln Assassination

The assassination of me, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_assassination)President Lincoln, took place on good friday on April 14, 1865, and was one of the last major events in the American Civil War. I was shot during a performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre. I was there with two guests and my wife.

My assassin was an actor and confederate sympathizer who also planned and plotted to kill the vice president, but that was a bigger plot. The assassin wanted to make a better place for the south, by assassinating me, and even though the assassin did kill me, the larger plot had failed. The original plan made by the assassin, John Wilkes Booth, only involved kidnapping me. He plotted to kidnap me and take me down south, hold me hostage there, and force my government finish exchanging prisoners afterwards. Instead, Booth went ahead with the assassination.

-Emma D.-

A Major Event in My Career

During my time as President, our country was in the middle of a Civil War. The Union did a great job in the war even though we lost 360,000 good men. I had never wanted anything like this to happen. I have always been completely against slavery and I knew that this had upset people. But I had never hoped for a Civil War to break out.

July of 1863, General Robert E. Lee's Army Of Northern Virginia of 75,000 men and the 97,000 man Union Army Of The Potomac under the leadership of General George G. Meade met, by accident, when the Confederate army sent a brigade for supplies and happened to see a forward column of General Meade's calvary.

Out of more than the 2,000 land encounters during the Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg is still considered to be the greatest battle of them all. Even though it did not end the war nor gain any war advantage for either the Union or the Confederacy, it is still a great battle (http://americancivilwar.com/).

At this battle site I gave the Gettysburg address. Probably the most famous line in the entire speech is the

opening line "Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, concieved

in Liberty, and dedicated to the propisition that all men are created equal" (http://americancivilwar.com/).

Mark Hendrick

About Me

I was born on February 12, 1809 in Hardin County, Kentucky. I am happily married to Mary Todd Lincoln. I had four boys, Robert, Edward, William, and Thomas. Sadly, only Robert lived (Presidents App). I was never affiliated with religion or education because my father was a Kentucky frontiersman. Before becoming a president, I worked at at small store in Salem Illinois. I then worked as a lawyer, moved on to become an Illinois state legislator, and eventually became a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. I was elected as a republican to presidency in 1860. And to another term in 1864 (www.whiehouse.gov).

-Mark and Emma