...shortly after his 2nd term began on April 14th 1865. His biography mentions nothing about a 2nd term run as leader of the National Party....oh wait I did not look up far enough. It is there, but I get the impression it was one and the same party, just different political factions in a most turbulent time for the country. Please correct me if I don't have that right, because like most I have always had the impression that Lincoln and Republicanism were always one and the same. However, it has puzzled me through the years as to just way I admired Abraham Lincoln as president who had far more in common with the common people and could very well have been a democrat like FDR then resemble almost any republican president after Lincoln, and certainly this BushCo bunch of bastards are about as far removed from the beliefs and principles espoused by Ab Lincoln as any politician can be.:
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1860Lincoln gained national fame because of his powerful speech at Cooper Union in New York City on February 27th. He toured New England making more speeches. Regarding the presidency, he wrote a friend on April 29th that "The taste is in my mouth a little."
On May 18th he was
nominated for President at the Republican National Convention in Chicago. In July the Lincolns' eldest son, Robert, enrolled at Harvard University. On October 15th 11-year-old Grace Bedell of Westfield, New York, wrote Lincoln a letter suggesting he grow a beard. He decided to follow her advice. On November 6th Lincoln was elected President over 3 opponents (Stephen Douglas, John Breckinridge, and John Bell) winning 39% of the popular vote but nearly 60% of the electoral vote. The Lincolns rented their home for $350 a year and sold most of their furniture. Much of the furniture was purchased by L.L. Tildon of Chicago, and it was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
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1864Lincoln nominated Ulysses S. Grant as the first full lieutenant general since George Washington. Grant assumed his role as General-in-Chief of Union armies.
Lincoln received the
Republican (National Union Party) nomination on June 8th to run for a 2nd term as President. Andrew Johnson was his Vice-Presidential running mate. On November 8th he easily defeated Democrat George B. McClellan in the Presidential election. Later in November General Sherman set Atlanta on fire and began his destructive "march to the sea." On December 6th Lincoln nominated Salmon P. Chase for Chief Justice.
Pictured above is the Lincoln Cottage at the Soldiers' Home - where the Lincolns often stayed to avoid Washington's summer heat. Once a shot was fired through Lincoln's hat (possibly by a hunter but probably by a sniper) while the President was on horseback near the Soldiers' Home. The President asked that no mention of it be made to the public. He said, "It was probably an accident and might worry my family."
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1865A peace conference at Hampton Roads, Virginia, failed. On March 4th Lincoln was inaugurated as President for the second time.
This is a Library of Congress photograph of Lincoln speaking at his 2nd Inauguration.
Richmond was abandoned by the Confederates, and Lincoln walked through the streets of that city on April 4th. On April 9th Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox. Lincoln gave his last public speech on April 11th. He told a crowd at the White House that he hoped for an early return of all the seceded states to the Union. The Lincolns attended the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre on April 14th, and Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth at about 10:15 P.M. The President died the next morning at 7:22 A.M. + 10 seconds. He was 56 years old at the time of his death. Andrew Johnson took the oath of office as the 17th President on April 15th. On April 21st a nine car funeral train that included 300 dignitaries left Washington, D.C. and began a nearly 1700 mile journey back to Springfield. During the afternoon of May 4th, Lincoln's body was buried at Oak Ridge Cemetery .
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