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During the Civil War, at least one regiment of the United States Colored Troops used it as their motto. [9] John Wilkes Booth wrote in his diary that he shouted "Sic semper tyrannis" after shooting U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, in part because of the association with the assassination of Caesar. [10] [11] [12]
Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address on Saturday, March 4, 1865, during his second inauguration as President of the United States.At a time when victory over secessionists in the American Civil War was within days and slavery in all of the U.S. was near an end, Lincoln did not speak of happiness, but of sadness.
Abraham Lincoln's 1860 election further convinced many southern supporters of slavery that his opposition to its expansion would ultimately mean the end of slavery across the country. The seizure of Fort Sumter by Confederate forces on April 14, 1861, prompted Lincoln to call for a federal army of 75,000 men from state militias .
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"Vote yourself a farm and horses" – Abraham Lincoln, referring to Republican support for a law granting homesteads on the American frontier areas of the West. "The Union must and shall be preserved!" – Abraham Lincoln "Protection to American industry" – Abraham Lincoln "True to the Union and the Constitution to the last." – Stephen A ...
Three ships have borne the name Abraham Lincoln, in honor of the 16th President of the United States. USS President Lincoln , a troop transport that was commissioned in 1917 and sank in 1918 USS Abraham Lincoln (SSBN-602) , a ballistic missile submarine in service from 1961 to 1981
Abraham Lincoln, a portrait by Mathew Brady taken February 27, 1860, the day of Lincoln's Cooper Union speech in New York City. Lincoln accepted the nomination with great enthusiasm and zeal. After his nomination he delivered his House Divided Speech, with the biblical reference Mark 3:25, "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe ...