In the year 1809, the future sixteenth president and the son of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks was born, and was named Abraham after his grandfather. He was born into a one room log cabin in Kentucky made form logs and clay, and it sat right on the hard cold earth, with just a fireplace on one wall to keep them warm. In 1811, at the age of two, Abraham and his family moved to Knob Creek, where he first learned to plant, husk corn, hoe, chop wood, and build hearth fires.

Abe's first schooling came at the age of six, when his older sister, Sarah, brought him to the schoolhouse two miles down the road, where he learned to read, write and do arithmetic. Because there were no close neighbors during his earlier years in life, Abe got used to being alone, though he did not mind because of his fondness of nature and the outdoors. Even his later years as a politician, did he remember his knowledge of nature and of the differences in the trees that he passed by in Washington.

In December of 1816, Thomas Lincoln moved the family to the backwoods of Indiana, but to get there they had to cut a trail themselves out of the wilderness in order to reach their destination. In the autumn of 18

Abe knew, that if the United States were to come together again, he would have to settle the slavery issue. In 1962 he announced the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that all slaves belonging to owners in the succeeded lands would be free as of January first 1962. In 1863 at Gettysburg, the only battle on Northern soil, the Union defeated the Confederacy, and later that year the battlefield was declared a national cemetery for all those that died there. At the dedication of this, President Lincoln gave his famous Gettysburg address that was awed by even Edward Everett, a noted orator who also spoke there that day.

He returned to law for a period of time until the threat of slavery being extended brought him back to politics in 1854. Not wanting to cause another uprising against him by giving speeches against slavery where it already was, he concentrated on the area of Kansas and Nebraska because of the act that passed giving them the choice of slavery. In 1856 he helped develop the Illinois branch of the newly developed Republican Party, formed by people against the idea of slavery. He became the leading Republican in Illinois and was voted into the running for vice-presidency, which brought the attention of the nation onto Abraham Lincoln. This election was lost, but in 1858 Abe was nominated as the senator for Illinois. It was here in front of the state convention at Springfield, that he delivered one of many memorable speeches.

18 Abe's mother Nancy died from "milk sickness", and so young Sarah, who was only eleven, took over the chores of from her mother. A year later though, Thomas Lincoln found a second wife, in order to help around the house, named Sarah Bush Johnston, whom had three kids of her own. Abe and Sarah quickly grew to love their new stepmother, who kept an immaculate house and even pushed Abe to do his studies.

The great life of Abraham Lincoln was only polished off by his magnificence in the time of war, and the abolition of slavery. He was a great man in every sense of the word and showed his dignity and grace in everything he did. Not until much later was the legend of him solidified in the Lincoln monument, which now stands proudly in the nation capitol. Forever will he be in hearts, our souls and our lives.

Always teaching himself new things, Abe got interested in law, when reading a book on the laws

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