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   American Civil War

   Northern politician Abraham Lincoln said, "this question of Slavery was more important than any other; indeed, so much more important has it become that no other national question can even get a hearing just at present." ... Kentucky did not secede; for a time, it declared itself neutral.
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   Gettysburg Address

   The only confirmed photo of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg (seated), taken about noon, just after Lincoln arrived and some three hours before he spoke. ... Lincoln's "few appropriate remarks" summarized the war in 10 sentences and 272 words.
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   Abraham Lincoln

   For some time, Thomas Lincoln, Abraham's father, was a respected and relatively affluent citizen of the Kentucky backcountry. ... Despite support for the Crittenden Compromise among some Republicans, Lincoln denounced it in private letters, saying "either the Missouri line extended, or...
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   Thomas Lincoln

   Abraham Lincoln claimed many years later that his father’s move from Kentucky to Indiana was "partly on account of slavery, but chiefly on account of the difficulty of land titles in Kentucky." ... Throughout all of Abraham Lincoln's writings, and the recollections of his speech, "he had not one favorable word to say about his father."
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   Abraham Lincoln (captain)

   In 1780, Abraham Lincoln sold his land on Linville Creek, and in 1781 he moved his family to Kentucky, then a district of the commonwealth of Virginia. The family settled in Jefferson County, about twenty miles (32 km) east of the site of Louisville.
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   Abraham Lincoln on slavery

   Lincoln said he was against Negro suffrage in his speech in Columbus, Ohio on September 16, 1859.:d ... Abraham Lincoln
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   John Brown (abolitionist)

   President Abraham Lincoln said he was a "misguided fanatic" and Brown has been called "the most controversial of all 19th-century Americans." ... As shown in the Ohio Cultivator, Brown and other wool growers had already complained about this problem as something that hurt U.S. wools abroad.
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   Abraham Lincoln assassination

   On April 11, 1865, Booth attended a speech outside the White House in which Lincoln gave support for the idea of voting rights for black people. ... Abraham Lincoln
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   Kentucky

   Abraham Lincoln Birthplace near Hodgenville ... Find more about Kentucky on Wikipedia's sister projects:
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    Henry Wager Halleck

    Abraham Lincoln said that he had given Halleck full power and responsibility as general in chief. ... | Place of death | Louisville, Kentucky |

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