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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of the United States, was born nära Hodgenville, Kentucky on February 12, His family moved to Indiana when he was sju and he grew up on the edge of the frontier. He had very little formal education, but read voraciously when not working on his father’s farm. A childhood friend later recalled Lincoln's "manic" intellekt, and the sight of him red-eyed and tousle-haired as he pored over books late into the night. In , at the age of nineteen, he accompanied a produce-laden flatboat down the Mississippi River to New Orleans, Louisiana—his first visit to a large city--and then walked back home. Two years later, trying to avoid health and finance troubles, Lincoln's father moved the family moved to Illinois.
After moving away from home, Lincoln co-owned a general store for several years before selling his stake and enlisting as a militia captain defending Illinois in the Bl
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It may seem a cliche to preface my Top Five articles with the disclaimer that the subject cannot possibly be done justice by so few recommendations. Then I cheat and add topical or geographical frameworks to make the selections manageable. Biography being perhaps more enormous than any other genre, it is a foregone conclusion that many, many truly outstanding books will be left off such a short list. Biographies that fall under the Civil War heading generally speaking run the full gamut. There are famous works, like Douglas Southall Freeman&#;s four-volume treatment of Robert E. Lee (–), Carl Sandburg&#;s study of Abraham Lincoln (–), and more recently, David Herbert Donald&#;s Lincoln (). There are biographies that fill gaps or cover long-neglected figures (most recently Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Varina Davis, and Harriet Tubman); that challenge enduring interpretations (George McClellan, James Longstreet, Ulysses S. Grant); that offer new interpretations (Jesse James); a
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American Civil War
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The American Civil War (April 12, &#;&#; May 26, ; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union[e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in by states that had seceded from the Union. The central conflict leading to war was a dispute over whether slavery should be permitted to expand into the western territories, leading to more slave states, or be prohibited from doing so, which many believed would place slavery on a course of ultimate extinction.[14][15]
Decades of controversy over slavery came to a head when Abraham Lincoln, who opposed slavery's expansion, won the presidential election. Seven Southern slave states responded to Lincoln's victor