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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." ... McClellan resisted General-in-Chief Halleck's orders to send reinforcements to John Pope's Union Army of Virginia, which made it easier for Lee's Confederates to defeat twice the number of combined enemy troops.
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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

   Despite support for the Crittenden Compromise among some Republicans, Lincoln denounced it in private letters, saying "either the Missouri line extended, or... ... Find more about Abraham Lincoln on Wikipedia's sister projects:
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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." ... Although the attack had taken place on Federal property, Wise ordered that Brown and his men would be tried in Virginia (perhaps to avert Northern political pressure on the Federal government, or in the unlikely event of a presidential pardon).
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   Abraham Lincoln and religion

   The earliest reference I have found to the story in which Lincoln is alleged to have said to an unnamed Illinois minister, "I do love Jesus" is in a sermon preached in the Baptist Church of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, April 19, 1865, by Rev. W.W. Whitcomb, which was published in the Oshkosh Northwestern, April 21, 1865, and in 1907 issued in pamphlet form by John E. Burton." ... Stephen Oates, With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln (Harper & Row, 1977), p. 70, writes, "After Willie's death, he talked more frequently about God than he had before."
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   Carl Sandburg

   Another secondary school by the same name is located south of Alexandria, Virginia and is part of the Fairfax County Public Schools School District. ... Other versions say, "I think Abraham Lincoln said that," or "I think T.S. Elliot said that."
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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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   History of the United States (1849–1865)

   The debates in the Philadelphia Convention over the construction of the new country of America seemed to suggest that the Founding Fathers of America believed that the major strain on the new country would be between large states such as New York and Virginia and small states such as Delaware and Rhode Island. ... Lincoln said that Chief Justice Roger Taney was the first person who said that the Declaration of Independence did not apply to blacks and that Douglas was the second.
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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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    John Wilkes Booth

    "Our cause being almost lost", Booth wrote in his journal, "something decisive and great must be done." ... Port Royal, Virginia, U.S. Occupation Actor Known for Abraham Lincoln assassination Religious beliefs Protestant Episcopal Parents Junius Brutus Booth

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