Abraham Lincoln rose from poverty to become ... Here my children have been born and one is buried." In 1850, Lincoln's favorite son was born. William Wallace "Willie" Lincoln was the most like ...

Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth, yet simple to describe: he confronted the secession of the South and the dissolution of the Union with all the political ...

Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin in Hardin County ... Lincoln’s second son, Eddie, died in 1850 at the age of four; another, Willie, died of Typhoid fever in 1862. His youngest son, ...

In a quarter-century legal career, Abraham Lincoln accepted all types of casework, ranging from real estate to murder — and ...

Lincoln had struggled to heal the wounds of war, yet he became one of its last victims, and the war left the country no less divided. Abraham Lincoln grew up on the American frontier. Born in a ...

The Republican Party were not popular in the South. Southerners believed that they wished to abolish slavery. In the 1860 election the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln won all the Northern states.