BIRTH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN 16th PRESIDENT OF THE U.S
Abraham Lincoln was born on 12th February 1809, the second child of Thomas and Nancy Lincoln.
He was born into poverty in a log cabin on Sinking Spring Farm, near Hogdenville Kentucky.
Abraham Lincoln’s presidency is known for the way he led the Union, to eventually win the Civil War.
He was also an advocate for abolishing slavery.
Even to this day, Lincoln is considered one of the United States’ greatest presidents, whose legacy has been literally cemented by monuments all over the country.
Lincoln was assassinated while watching a play at the Ford Theatre.
Just after 10 p.m on 14th April 1865, John Wilkes Booth entered President Abraham Lincoln’s private theater box unnoticed, and shot the president with a single bullet in the back of his head.
The president, mortally wounded, was carried to a cheap lodging house opposite Ford’s Theatre.
When the surgeon general arrived at the house, he concluded that Lincoln could not be saved, and would probably die during the night.
At about 7:22 the next morning of the 15th April, President Lincoln passed away at the age of 56.
He was the first U.S. president to be assassinated.
The president’s body was placed in a temporary coffin, draped with a flag, and escorted by armed cavalry to the White House.
Abraham Lincoln’s body was then carried through 180 cities on a train dubbed “The Lincoln Special.”
At every stop along the way, his body was taken off the train and displayed so the public could mourn him.
On 4th May 1865, after weeks of lying in state and then in repose in twelve cities ~ the sixteenth president was “laid to rest” inside a receiving vault at Oak Ridge Cemetery near Lincoln’s home in Springfield, Illinois.
He would remain here until the Lincoln Tomb could be completed.
Rather than resting, however, Lincoln’s body was moved seventeen times, and his coffin opened five more times, before finally resting in peace, thirty-six years later.
Lincoln’s body rests inside a steel cage, beneath two tons of concrete, poured ten feet high over his coffin.
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