Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States.  After his assassination, his funeral procession took twelve days.  It stopped at Baltimore, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, New York City, Albany, Utica, Syracuse, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, and Chicago.  He was buried on May 4, 1865, in Oak Ridge Cemetery Springfield.

Important events during President Lincoln's administration were:

• There was a plot to assassinate President-elect Lincoln in Baltimore, Maryland during February 1861.

• Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee voted to secede from the Union during April, May and June of 1861.

• The first attack in the Civil War happened at Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861.

• The first battle at Bull Run took place on July 21, 1861.

• The telegraph line between New York City and San Francisco was completed on October 24, 1861.

• President Lincoln took charge over the Army and Navy on March 11, 1862.

• The Battle of Shiloh took place on April 6th and 7th, 1862.

• Slavery was abolished in the District of Columbia on April 16, 1862.

• The Department of Agriculture was established on May 16, 1862.

• The Homestead Act was approved on May 20, 1862.  Settlers were offered 160 acres of free land.

• The second battle at Bull Run took place on August 30, 1862.

• The battle at Antietam took place on September 17, 1862.  This was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

• President Lincoln issues the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862.

• The Emancipation Proclamation is issued on January 1, 1863.

• The national banking system was created on February 25, 1863.

• West Virginia was admitted as the 35th State.

• The Battle of Gettysburg took place from July 1st to July 3rd, 1863.

• Confederate forces surrender at Vicksburg on July 4, 1863.

• President Lincoln delivers his famous Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863, four months after the battle took place.

• President Lincoln is reelected on November 8, 1864.

• General Sherman captured the city of Atlanta on September 2, 1864 and kept control of the city until November 15, 1864.

• Nevada was admitted as the 36th state on October 31, 1864.

• The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution was passed by Congress on January 31, 1865 and was ratified by the twenty-seven states on December 6, 1865.  This amendment abolished slavery.

• President Lincoln is inaugurated President for a second term on March 4, 1865.

• General Robert E. Lee surrenders to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia on April 9, 1865.

• President Lincoln is shot at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865 and dies on April 15, 1865.

• Both Abraham Lincoln, the President of the Union, and Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederate State of America were born in Kentucky.

• When President Lincoln was inaugurated for his first term in office, March 4, 1861, there were five other Presidents alive:  Martin Van Buren, John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, and James Buchanan.

Abraham Lincoln was

• the first President born in Kentucky.

• the first President to be born in a state other than the first thirteen colonies.

• the third President to die in office.

• the first President to be assassinated.

• the fifth President who lived in a state where he was not born.

• the first President to wear a beard.

• the first and only President to receive a patent.  On May 22, 1849, Lincoln patented a cylinder used for buoying vessels over shoals.