ABRAHAM LINCOLN -- THE HERO OF THE CIVIL WAR

He failed as a businessman.
He failed as a farmer.
He failed in his first attempt to obtain a political office.
He had so many other failures.
But Abraham Lincoln had one unique quality, the humaneness. This common looking man ( in his own words “ Common looking people are the best in the world, that is reason Lords makes so many of them” ) who had schooling of barely 12 months. ( In his own words “ Still some how I could read , write and cipher…….but that was all “ )
This great gentleman had many ups and down, probably downs only.
Lincoln made extra ordinary efforts to gain the knowledge; he was reading during time available on farms, he would borrow books from the neighbors.
Lincoln was elected as the 16^th president of America on November 6, 1860.
After Lincoln’s election, many southern states fearing republican control in the government seceded from the union. After the fall of Ft. Sumter, Lincoln raised the army and decided to fight to save the union from falling apart.
On January 1, 1863, Emancipation Proclamation went into effect. This was Lincoln’s declaration of freedom of all slaves.
Lincoln successfully pulled out the country from the mess of civil war. He was re-elected 1864.
Lincoln was a great speaker, a great leader; his quotes can still move the people.
But the one below are tops.
“ With malice toward none, with charity to all, with firmness in the right, as God give us to see the right, let’s strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds …….”
And

“ …..and that we highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation under the God shall have a new birth of freedom – and that the government of the people, by the people and for the people , shall not perish from the earth………”

Abraham Lincoln shall be remembered for years and years for his vital role in preserving the Union during Civil War and beginning the process that lead to end of slavery in United States. He shall be remembered for his character, his speeches and his letters, and as a humble man of humble origins who had great determination.
On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was shot dead, a first president assassinated.