Abraham Lincoln Saves the Union

He only received 18 months of formal education and was largely self educated. In 1816 Lincoln’s father lost his farm and was forced to move to Perry County, Indiana. This area of the country near the Ohio River was very remote and rugged. Their first winter at the new homestead was very harsh but they were able to survive. Unfortunately that summer Lincoln’s mother died from a deadly disease known as “milk sickness” and left his father with the children to raise alone(Lincoln research project).

Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 in a log cabin in Hardin Kentucky. His father Thomas Lincoln was a carpenter and farmer who was always very poor. Both of his parents were members of a Baptist congregation which had split from another church because of its views against slavery. This is where Abe first developed his own opposition to slavery. When Abe was nine the family moved to Spencer, Indiana, and his mother Nancy died from milk sickness.

Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin located in Hodgenville Kentucky on the twelfth of February in the year of 1809. His parents were Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. Lincoln had one older sister (Sarah) who was born in 1807. Three years after Abraham was born, his mother gave birth to a baby boy they named Thomas. The family was faced with devastating turmoil when Thomas died while he was still an infant.

He was one of three children with Sarah being his older sister and Thomas being his younger brother whom died in infancy. In 1817, there was a land dispute which forced Lincoln’s family to move to Perry County, Indiana where his father eventually bought the land (Abraham Lincoln Biography). When Abraham was 9 years old his mother died of tremetol (Abraham Lincoln Biography). His father soon remarried to Sarah Bush Johnston (Abraham Lincoln Biography). Ab bonded close with his step mother as she had always encouraged him to read.

Jackson participated in a few duels, even though legends say that he participated in more. One of his duels was when Charles Dickinson called Jackson “a worthless scoundrel, a poltroon and a coward” in 1806, so Jackson challenged him to a duel. Dickinson fired first and hit Jackson in the chest and then Jackson fired and hit Dickinson in the chest also and Dickinson bled to death. Jackson never got his bullet taken out and had pain for the rest of his life. Besides being in many duels, Jackson ended up living till he was 78 years old and died June 8, 1845 due to a health decline.

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Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin on February 12, 1809 in Hardin County, Kentucky. Much of his childhood was a struggle; his mother dying when he was just ten years old, and with his father being a frontiersman, money was scarce. He had to strive for a comfortable living, and he spent his days working on a farm and keeping a store. Education was also something of limited resources, but because of his hunger for knowledge, he was able to read, write, and cipher. Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846 where he played part of the Illinois legislature for eight years, and for many years he also rode the circuit of courts.

As Lincoln grew up, he moved to Illinois, where he spent most of his childhood as well as some of his adulthood. Lincoln lost his mother at age nine, due to milk sickness. This tragic loss led to Lincoln’s sister, Sarah, to care for him. Lincoln was often considered lazy by his neighbors. At age twenty-two, Lincoln canoed down the Sangamon River.

The Lincoln family nicknamed Sarah as Sally (Biography). Unfortunately, Thomas died as a baby (Biography). Their father was a pioneer and was well liked by the community (Biography). In 1817, the family moved to Indiana because of a “land dispute” (Biography). After the family moved they had a terrible hardship come upon them.

20 May 2014. . Freedman, Russell. Lincoln: A Photobiography. New York, NY: Clarion, 1987. Print.