Lincoln Eulogy

Abraham was born on February 12, 1809, in Hodgenville, Kentucky who was raised in the family farming. His parents were Thomas and Nancy Lincoln. Thomas was a strong man, a farmer, been described a desperate man who knocked his son down in anger several times and Nancy, who didn't talk much and literate (Isaac N. Arnold,1882). Additionally, Thomas and Nancy were also members of a Separate Baptists church, which had restrictive moral standards and opposed alcohol, dancing, and slavery. Hence, his parents were significant influences, and greatly shaped the 16th president of the United States.

Katie Helm, in The True Story of Mary, wife of Lincoln, provides a unique view into the life of the First Lady during the Civil war as only a family member could. Since she was the daughter of Emile Todd the half-sister of Mary Lincoln, Ms. Helm was able to collect information for her aunt’s biography directly from her mother’s memory and her access to the Todd family diaries and letters. Therefore she reveals through the knowledge she gained from her family, the struggles Mary Lincoln faced during the Civil War. As men were falling continuously in battle, Mrs. Lincoln inevitably felt the pain of losing three of her own brothers who had fought on the side of the Confederates. Devastatingly, she dared not show her grief over her losses

He mother was a cook for a white family. When she was 11 she was finally enrolled in school. When she was 21 she became an educationalist. She loved her job and she was dedicated to giving her all to teach the future generation. In 1898 Mary met a man by the name of Albert Bethune whom she soon married and conceived a health boy.

On March 1st, 1861 Abraham Lincoln gave his first Inaugural Address as the President of the United States of America, and four years later made his second inaugural address on March 4th, 1865. As a known Republican Lincoln’s current spot as president was not welcomed with open arms by the slave states of the South. For the people residing in the Southern states did not see Republicans as a supportive role in keeping the foundation of slavery alive, and/or they saw them as an assemblage of people who wanted to set the slaves free. Lincoln sensed the worry from the slave states and wanted to relax the leaders in order to keep them from separating from the U.S.A. so he tried his hardest to ease their worries during his First Inaugural Address.

If you ask someone who their biggest supporter is, they usually answer with “my mother.” Regularly, mothers tend to promote a critical but sincere and encouraging persona when it comes to their child by giving them the support and advice they need to grow as an individual. Similarly, in a letter to her son, Abigail Adams advises him to use his opportunities to his advantage to face his “difficulties” and “calamities” with strength and “great virtues” so that he may “bring honor to his country” and “add justice, fortitude, and every manly virtue” to his character to form one similar to “[a] hero’s and the statesman.” By employing pathos, historical allusions and a sincere tone, Adams reveals her purpose is to convince her son that difficulties in life are meant to be embraced in order to establish a strong and tested foundation of will along with adding to his character. She claims that in doing so, one will receive “wisdom and penetration[,] the fruit of [these] experience[s].”

Mary McLeod Bethune was the 15th of 17 children born to former slaves, Samuel and Patsy McLeod. Her parents and siblings endured many hardships because of slavery. However, Mary McLeod Bethune persevered through all of those challenges and became one of America’s greatest educators. The purpose of this paper is to bring awareness about her life, education and political success which validates her as an American hero.

The civil war became a different war as the gleaming sun set over the bloody fields of Antietam. After the union had partially won the battle, Abraham Lincoln changed the war as he wrote one of the most controversial, and most crucial documents in American history: the Emancipation Proclamation (Dudley 166). Mr. Lincoln’s preliminary proclamation declared that on January 1, 1863, all slaves remaining in areas of the South “in rebellion would be declared then, thenceforward, and forever free” (Dudley 167). The Emancipation Proclamation paved the way to the abolition of slavery, and is by far one of the most important accomplishments made in history.

He says, “If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them.” This persuaded the border states to stay with the North because the only issue they had was keeping slavery. In addition, when to publish the Emancipation Proclamation was an issue, but Lincoln was told not to do so. He waited to publish the Emancipation Proclamation after a victory because if he issued it after a loss, he would have seemed

Two years before Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, November 19, 1863, Lincoln gave his most famous speech, the Gettysburg Address. Not only did his speech refine the meaning of the Civil War, which was basically to officially hate the South, he also only gave dedication to his soldiers and not to the best ones in the South. One year prior to the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation has not one but, two parts to it.

During the Civil War President Abraham Lincoln made a second Emancipation Proclamation. On September 22nd, 1862, after the battle of Antietam he issued a opening Emancipation Proclamation declaring all slaves free. This is when the Union Army gave freed slaves “Forty Acres and a Mule”. Then General Robert E. Lee surrendered at the Appomattox Court House, in Virginia which put an end to the Civil War. After the Civil War most of the South was destroyed so Abraham Lincoln made a plan called “reconstruction” that later turns into “Reconstruction Act of 1867”.

President Abraham Lincoln claimed the reason why the Confederate States were still able to fight in the Civil War was because of their slaves. He used his grant of wars power to help abolish slavery. Who freed the slaves? Abraham Lincoln did when he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that freed all the slaves in the sates that were fighting against the Union. It did not necessarily free all the slaves at that time, but this emancipation was the turning point of the Civil War and paved the way for the passing of the 13th Amendment into the Constitution.

From the beginning of his administration, Abraham Lincoln got a lot of pressure from those who supported the abolition of slavery and radical Republicans to issue an Emancipation Proclamation. At that time, Abraham Lincoln was debating upon linking abolition to the war. On July 17th, 1862, the Congress passed the Second Confiscation Act that gave freedom to the salves, who were owned by the supporters of the Confederacy. Thus, it was the signal that Lincoln waited to issue the declaration (Woog, 2009, p. 40). Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln that freed the slaves in those states that were in rebellion.

President Abraham Lincoln, in his inaugural address, addresses the topic of the civil war and its effects on the nation and argues that America could be unified once more. He supports his claim by using massive amounts of parallel structure and strong word choice. Lincoln ‘s purpose is to contemplate the effects of the civil war in order to unite the broken America once again. He adopts a very hopeful tone for his audience, the readers of the inaugural address and others interested in the topic of American history and the civil war.

Vu Pham Professor Sunshine McClain History 170 May 22, 2016 Abraham Lincoln Does Not Deserve To be The Great Emancipator Abolition of slavery was a big controversy in the United State of America in the nineteenth century due to the different stances between northern and southern states which led to the American Civil war. At the present time, Abraham Lincoln was the president of the United States who supported the north (Union) thought that free the slave could help him united all the states. As the result, he passed out the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862, which give freedom to slaves in the states that the Union did not control. After the war, he issued the Thirteenth Amendment on December 6, 1865, to free all slaves.

They had accomplished many things in their life times. Abraham Lincoln is a well known man, for his presidency and influence in Slavery. Lincoln was born on February twelfth, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. His siblings were Sarah Lincoln and Thomas Lincoln Jr, named after his father. His parents were Nancy Lincoln and Thomas Lincoln.