Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March  1861  until  his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and an event often considered its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis.
Largely self-educated, Lincoln became a lawyer in Illinois, a Whig Party leader, and a member of the Illinois House of Representatives, in which he served for twelve years.
In 1860, Lincoln secured the Republican Party presidential nomination as a moderate from a swing state. Though he gained very little support in the slaveholding states of the South, he swept the North and was elected president in 1860. Lincoln’s victory prompted seven southern slave states to form the Confederate States of America before he moved into the White House.
Lincoln was re-elected president in November of 1864.
He was shot dead on April 14, 1865.
An inspiring biography of one of the greatest human beings on the earth who laid down his life for the betterment of mankind.

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Contents

Preface — Pgs. 7

1. The Wild West — Pgs. 11

2. The Lincoln Family — Pgs. 16

3. Early Years — Pgs. 20

4. In Indiana — Pgs. 27

5. Second Journey to New Orleans — Pgs. 32

6. Desultory Employments — Pgs. 34

7. Entering Politics — Pgs. 41

8. Entering the Law — Pgs. 48

9. On the Circuit — Pgs. 54

10. Social Life and Marriage — Pgs. 61

11. The Enroachmets of Slavery — Pgs. 67

12. The Awakening of the Lion — Pgs. 72

13. Two Things that Lincoln Missed — Pgs. 79

14. The Birth of the Republican Party — Pgs. 84

15. The Battle of the Giants — Pgs. 89

16. Growing Audacity of the Slave Power — Pgs. 96

17. The Backwoodsman at the Center of Eastern Culture — Pgs. 101

18. The Nomination of 1860 — Pgs. 107

19. The Election — Pgs. 116

20. Four Long Months — Pgs. 123

21. Journey to Washington — Pgs. 130

22. The Inauguration — Pgs. 138

23. Lincoln His Own President — Pgs. 144

24. Fort Sumter — Pgs. 150

25. The Outburst of Patriotism — Pgs. 156

26. The War Here to Stay — Pgs. 162

27. The Darkest Hour of the War — Pgs. 168

28. Lincoln and Fremont — Pgs. 173

29. Lincoln and McClellan — Pgs. 179

30. Lincoln and Greeley — Pgs. 186

31. Emancipation — Pgs. 193

32. Discouragements — Pgs. 201

33. New Hopes — Pgs. 207

34. Lincoln and Grant — Pgs. 214

35. Literary Characteristics — Pgs. 222

36. Second Election — Pgs. 228

37. Close of the War — Pgs. 233

38. Assassination — Pgs. 239

39. A Nation’s Sorrow — Pgs. 246

40. The Measure of a Man — Pgs. 253

41. Testimonies — Pgs. 260

Timeline — Pgs. 267

Henry Ketcham was a General in the Union Army of USA. During the Civil War and he also served in the House of Representatives for over 30 years. Ketcham was also notable for having written this great biography.