Abraham Lincoln, 1809–1865

A biography of Abraham Lincoln, from his birth in a Kentucky cabin to his funeral train: the frontier, New Salem, the law, his family, his return to politics over slavery, the debates with Douglas, the presidency and the Civil War, emancipation, and his death. **How to read it.** Chapter headings mark the stages of his life. Homes, offices, partnerships, campaigns, battles and the war are durations; everything else is a moment, tagged by thread (family, home, law, politics, office, speech, writing, slavery, war, work). Related moments are linked: a cause and what it led to. **Dates.** Local days; times of day are Washington’s, shown at a fixed UTC−5 (standard time zones came only in 1883). Where a date is approximate, its dating note says so. A sample timeline built from the cited sources (Wikipedia, The Lincoln Log, the Collected Works, the National Archives, the Library of Congress and the National Park Service); not a definitive history.

126 moments · 1809-01-01T00:00:00-05:00 CE – 1865-12-06T00:00:00-05:00 CE · by @athan · @athan