timescale.infoAbraham 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
Loses his first election
Back from the war with little time to campaign, he finishes eighth of thirteen for four seats, though New Salem gives him 277 of its 300 votes.