Abraham Lincoln
BANG! BANG! BANG! Did you know Abraham Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated? He was only 56 years old. Can you imagine what it would be like to have someone in your family assassinated?
I’m here to tell you somethings you might have not known about Abraham Lincoln. First of all Abraham Lincoln was born on February the 12th 1809 Hodgenville in Kentucky of the United States. He was assassinated on April the 15th 1865 in Washington D.C United States.
When Lincoln was growing up his father lost everything when Abraham was young and they had to move to Perry County, Indiana where they struggled to get by. When he was just nine years old, his mother died and his sister Sarah took care of him until his father remarried.
Six days after surrender of Confederate commanding General Robert E. Lee, Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. At first nobody knew who had killed Lincoln until 6 days later. Lincoln was 1.93 metres tall. He was even a self-educated lawyer in Illinois back in the 1830s. He also abolished slavery, lead the United States through it’s Civil War the bloodiest war and it’s greatest moral, Constitutional and political crisis.
Conclusion
That is mainly what you need to know about Abraham Lincoln. Some facts you may or may not have known so thank you for listening. I hope you learned new interesting facts.
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