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USA: Abraham Lincoln (1809 1865) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from 1861 to 1865. Photograph, 1863 Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.<br ><br > Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy. Copyright: xxPicturesxFromxHistoryx

USA: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Anthony Berger, 1864 Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.<br ><br > Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy. Copyright: xAnthonyxBergerxPicturesxFromxHistoryx

RECORD DATE NOT STATED Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, (1893). Lincoln (1809-1865) joined the Republican party in 1858 and was elected president two years later. In 1863, he proclaimed the emancipation of all slaves in the southern Confederate states and later that year restated his anti-slavery views in the Gettysburg Address. During his 1864 campaign for re-election, he embraced the abolition of slavery. He was infamously shot by actor John Wilkes Booth whilst attending the theatre in 1865. An engraving from James Taylor s The Age We Live In: A History of the Nineteenth Century, From the Peace of 1815 to the Present Time , William Mackenzie, (London, 1893). Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, (1893).Artist: HC Balding