James Oppenheim

James Oppenheim

Summary

Portrait of James Oppenheim James Oppenheim The Life of Abraham Lincoln (1915)

Lincoln's radicalism this time elects him President of the United States.
Before he leaves Springfield, Ill., for Washington, Lincoln gets news that part of the South has seceded from the Union.
Montgomery, Ala.
Feb. 9, 1861 Abraham Lincoln,
⁠President-elect,
⁠Springfield, Ill.
Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Florida and South Carolina have seceded from the Union and elected Jefferson Davis President of the Confederacy. They are seiging forts, arsenals and arms to be ready for your inauguration.
X.X.
"The Union must be preserved."
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Portrait of James Oppenheim James Oppenheim The Life of Abraham Lincoln (1915)

Lincoln invites Grant, who has just returned from the war, to attend Ford's theatre with him that evening.
At Ford's theatre.
The deed that robbed the world of its noblest character.
7 A. M. April 15, 1865.
Death came as gently as the spring time sleep of youth.
THE
END
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in 1915, before the cutoff of January 1, 1928.
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