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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Events

1864 Jul 2 The Wade-Davis Bill Passes Both Houses of Congress
The Wade-Davis Bill of 1864 was a program proposed for the Reconstruction of the South written by two Radical Republicans, Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio and Representative Henry Winter Da...
1864 Nov 8 1864 Presidential Election
After Union victories at Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga in 1863, overall victory seemed at hand, and Lincoln promoted Ulysses S. Grant General-in-Chief on March 12, 1864. When the...
1864 Dec 6 Abraham Lincoln Appoints Salmon P. Chase Chief Justice Of The United States
On December 6, 1864, Abraham Lincoln appointed Salmon P. Chase chief justice of the United States. A graduate of Dartmouth College, Chase studied law under Attorney General William Wirt. ...
1865 Mar 4 Lincoln Delivers Second Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln delivered his second inaugural address on March 4, 1865, during his inauguration at the start of his second term as President of the United States. At a time when victory ...
1865 Apr 14 President Abraham Lincoln Assassinated
Shortly after 10 P.M. on April 14, 1865, actor John Wilkes Booth entered the presidential box at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. and fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln. As Lincoln ...
1865 Nov Walt Whitman Publishes "O Captain! My Captain!"
" My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will; The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and..." —Final stanza of "O Captain! My Captain!"
1865 Dec 6 The Thirteenth Amendment is ratified
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. It was adopt...
1888 Feb 9 Walt Whitman Corrects His Poem "Oh Captain, My Captain"
On February 9, 1888, Walt Whitman penned a note to the publishers of The Riverside Literature Series No. 32 calling attention to mistakes in their recently printed version of his poem, "O...
1922 May 30 Lincoln Memorial Dedicated
"IN THIS TEMPLE AS IN THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE FOR WHOM HE SAVED THE UNION THE MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN IS ENSHRINED FOREVER." —Lincoln Memorial