The Leader of Our Nation

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Leadership is not something everyone can do. Some can lead a war. Or some can lead a group of friends, but then we get the ones who can lead a nation. Despite Abraham Lincoln’s difficult childhood, Abe was an extraordinary man that changed and inspired many lives. He was also our sixteenth president who led our nation to do great accomplishments. He is the kind of leader that inspires people to lead and do countless things for others. Abraham was born to Thomas and Nancy Lincoln on February 12, 1809 in Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kentucky. Abe had a sister and two brothers, Sarah, Thomas and Dennis. Shortly after Thomas took his first breaths, he unexpectedly died with an unknown cause. When Abraham was born, his family owned two 600-acre farms, city lots, livestock, and horses. Thomas Lincoln had all sorts of jobs. From selling and buying farms all the way to serving juries duty. He also guarded slaves and prisoners. He additionally did some estate business later on in life. The Lincoln family was on of the richest families in the county, but with great power and wealth comes great consequences. Later on in 1811 Thomas lost all the land and wealth because of the wrong title name on a court case. Even more disaster happened. When Abe was just nine year old, his mom died from tremetol, milk dieses. Abraham was left without a mother, but not for long. Is older sister, Sarah was left to take care of Abe for a bit until their father came back from his hunt for his wife-to-be. Almost a year without their father, Abe and his siblings believed their father had perished, until Thomas came back to the farm married to Sarah Bush Johnston. Some time after the marriage of Thomas and Sarah, Abraham’s only sister died from giving ... ... middle of paper ... ...ho fought so bravely for the union and to state that all men are equal. “The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract”(Basler). On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant. The Union had won the war. Lincoln had many accomplishments wining the presidential election twice and the Gettysburg address were just some of them. Along with the Gettysburg address, Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation to emphasize the true meaning of freedom. It declared, "that all persons held as slaves are, and henceforward shall be free”(The Emancipation Proclamation). The proclamation gave a better understanding of what freedom to all men should really look like. Lincoln will forever be remembered as a hero to many as well as one of the best know leader America has ever known.

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