On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President ... reluctant to commission black officers -- only one hundred gained commissions during the war. African American soldiers were also ...

In addition to being president, Abraham Lincoln was the post-master of New Salem ... he announced his plans to run for a seat in the State Legislature. During the April 6- August 27 Black Hawk War (an ...

(Answers will vary but will likely include Abraham Lincoln ... opportunity to make some of the key decisions Lincoln faced during the Civil War. As a class, play the interactive’s third ...

Besides his presidency, he was also a participant in the Black Hawk War and a representative ... As reported by U.S. media, during his tenure, Abraham Lincoln pardoned Joe Biden's great-great ...

This, no doubt, is true of any really great statesman, but it was remarkably so of Abraham Lincoln ... was made captain of volunteers in the Black Hawk war, but this, his first and last essay ...

Lincoln’s election was itself evidence of the sectional discord that had ripped the United States apart during ... war must lead to “a new birth of freedom” or it would have been fought in vain. Major ...

President Abraham Lincoln ... years later. When Lincoln was 21, he moved to Illinois, says the website AbrahamLincoln.org. Lincoln served as a captain in the Black Hawk War — then spent eight ...