Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincolnwas the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth12 February 1809
CountryUnited States of America
war confused ducks
confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head.
war army half
Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.
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The trouble with Hooker is that he's got his headquarters where his hindquarters aught to be.
war civil-war green
You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike.
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The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced.
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That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free...
war struggle slavery
My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.
horse war civil-war
I can make brigadier generals, but i can't make horses.
war thinking games
I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.
war people speech
Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.
war fighting men
I can't spare this man, he fights!
war civil-war blair
He has got the slows, Mr. Blair.
war civil-war lord
The Lord spared the fitten and the rest he seen fitten to die.
prayer war men
Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully.