Author:Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

See biography, media, quotes. 16th President of the United States (1861 – 1865), with Hannibal Hamlin (1861 - 1865) and Andrew Johnson, succeeding James Buchanan; succeeded by Johnson. Whig House Representative from Illinois (1847 - 1849). Illinois militia (1832) The icon  identifies that the work includes a spoken word version.

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Inaugural addresses 1.2 State of the Union addresses 1.3 Other works 1.4 Letters 2 Works about Lincoln 3 Letters to Lincoln 3.1 Letters of Condolence to his family

[edit] Works

[edit] Inaugural addresses

• First Inaugural Address (1861)
• Second Inaugural Address (1865)

[edit] State of the Union addresses

• First State of the Union address (1861)
• Second State of the Union address (1862)
• Third State of the Union address (1863)
• Fourth State of the Union address (1864)

[edit] Other works

• Cooper's Union Speech
• Gettysburg Address (November 19, 1863)
• House Divided Speech (June 16, 1858)
• Proclamation of Amnesty (1863)
• The Emancipation Proclamation (1864)
• Final public address (April 11, 1865)
• The Bear Hunt, poem
• Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society
• Speeches to Ohio Regiments

[edit] Letters

• Letter to Carl Schurz (November 10, 1862)
• Letter to Carl Schurz (November 24, 1862)
• Letter to A. G. Hodges (April 4, 1864)
• Letter to Mrs. Bixby (November 21, 1864; a current belief is that this was written by his secretary, John Hay)

[edit] Works about Lincoln

• "The Quakers are Out" by John Greenleaf Whittier about Lincoln's 1860 Presidential campaign
• Abraham Lincoln: A Horatian Ode, 1865 poem by Richard Henry Stoddard
• "For the Services in Memory of Abraham Lincoln" by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1865)
• "O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman (1865)
• The Life of Abraham Lincoln (1866), by Josiah Gilbert Holland
• Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln (1876) by Frederick Douglass
• The Life of Abraham Lincoln (1885), by Isaac N. Arnold
• Abraham Lincoln: An Essay by Carl Schurz (1891)
• “The Story of Abraham Lincoln” from Four Great Americans by James Baldwin (1897)
• Abraham Lincoln: A Story and a Play by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade (1914)
• "Abraham Lincoln" in Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

[edit] Letters to Lincoln

• Letter from Carl Schurz (November 8, 1862)
• Letter from Carl Schurz (November 20, 1862)
• Elder Letter to President Lincoln (1864)

[edit] Letters of Condolence to his family

• Louis-Philippe to Mary Todd Lincoln, Friday, May 5, 1865

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