Civil War

When I became president their was a lot to deal with. The biggest problem was slavery of course. Within the first four months of becoming President 7 states left the Union and didn't want me as president. I just wanted to keep the Union together. When those 7 states left the Union they made 4 other states join the Confederacy. They would do anything to keep slavery and that's what started the Civil war.
The first battle of the Civil war was surprising. It was at a creek called Bull Run. They just totally shocked the whole Union with their General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. We lost that battle and they sent us running back to Washington. After we lose that battle I changes Generals. George B. McClellan Was the new General for the Union. In the summer both Generals met at Bull Run again and it was another win for them and they moved their way up to the north into Maryland.
In Maryland the battle of Antietam occurred and was known as the bloodiest days of the Civil war. Both the Confederacy and the Union fought hard and suffered great losses. This was barely a victory but it was a victory. For the confederates they lost their General Robert Lee. Without their general they all retreated back to the south.

I then Moved to Gettysburg so that I could deliver what was called the Gettysburg’s address. The address I had was about 272 words long. In that I address I didn’t mention slavery once because everyone has already accepted it. After coming back from Gettysburg I once again changes generals. This time it was a good choice. His name was Ulysses S. Grant and he was an amazing fighter. I choose him as general because he helped us the most to win the war. He captured all the important confederacy bases. At the end Grant made Richmond surrendor and after that the confedericy fell and we won. Slaves were no longer slaves they were just as free as everyone else.

By: Jeff

"Abraham Lincoln and the Civil war." Essortment Articles: Free Online Articles on Health, Science, Education & More.. Web. 19 Feb. 2010. .

My assassination

Three days before my assassination, I had a dream that I only shared with my closed friends and my wife. My friend and bodyguard told people after my death that I described as the following "About ten days ago, I retired very late. I had been up waiting for important dispatches from the front. I could not have been long in bed when I fell into a slumber, for I was weary. I soon began to dream. There seemed to be a death-like stillness about me. Then I heard subdued sobs, as if a number of people were weeping. I thought I left my bed and wandered downstairs. There the silence was broken by the same pitiful sobbing, but the mourners were invisible. I went from room to room; no living person was in sight, but the same mournful sounds of distress met me as I passed along. I saw light in all the rooms; every object was familiar to me; but where were all the people who were grieving as if their hearts would break? I was puzzled and alarmed. What could be the meaning of all this? Determined to find the cause of a state of things so mysterious and so shocking, I kept on until I arrived at the East Room, which I entered. There I met with a sickening surprise. Before me was catafalque, on which rested a corpse wrapped in funeral vestments. Around it were stationed soldiers who were acting as guards; and there was a throng of people, gazing mournfully upon the corpse, whose face was covered, others weeping pitifully. 'Who is dead in the White House?' I demanded of one of the soldiers, 'The President,' was his answer; 'he was killed by an assassin.' Then came a loud burst of grief from the crowd, which woke me from my dream. I slept no more that night; and although it was only a dream, I have been strangely annoyed by it ever since." (Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865 by Ward Hill Lamon (Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1994)

I was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 15, 1865 in the at age 56. John Wilkes Booth was a southern extremist who largely disagreed with my choice to end slavery. He managed to get in to Ford theater and no one thought any thing of him coming up to my box because. because he was a common actor at the theater. He also, was angered by the north's defeat of the south and thought that if his larger plot to kill I and other important government and military figures would give the South a chance to over throw the North.

Booth had also planed to kill to murder Secretary of State William H Seward. At this time, Seward bedridden after a carriage accident.

However his first plan was to hold me hostage in order to force his government to resume its policy of exchanging prisoners. After the South lost the war and I gave many antislavery speeches and abolished slavery he changed his plan to kill me.

By Brian

Works Cited
"Abraham Lincoln -." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Web. 14 Feb. 2010. .

Introduction

I was born on February 12, 1809 in Hardin Country, Kentucky. My parent's names were Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks. A well known fact about my birth is that I was born in one room cabin. Soon after my birth I moved to Perry County, Indiana for a couple of reasons. First my father was against slavery and it was hard for my father to compete with slave operated farms. Also, he had problems with his land deeds in Kentucky. My mother died when I was nine. I only got 18 months of formal education, but, later became a state legislator.

I later became the 16th president of the United States and my life ended when I was murdered in ford theater.