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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 112. Chapters: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Winfield Scott, Albert Sidney Johnston, Zachary Taylor, Abraham Lincoln in the Black Hawk War, Sidney Breese, Hugh Brady, Richard Hawes, Stephen Mack, Jr., Edmund Dick Taylor, William Stephen Hamilton, James W. Stephenson, John Alexander McClernand, Henry Gratiot, Edward Dickinson Baker, John Dement, James D. Henry, George W. Jones, Joseph Throckmorton, Shabbona, Ichabod Crane, George Davenport, Joseph M. Street, Clack Stone, Robert Anderson, Thomas Ford, Ebenezer Brigham, Robert C. Buchanan, James M. Strode, Waukon Decorah, John Reynolds, Shick Shack, Henry Dodge, William P. Bryant, Adam Payne, Harvey Brown, John Giles Adams, Augustus C. Dodge, Edmund P. Gaines, Thomas Forsyth, Thomas Williams, Cornelius Gilliam, Felix St. Vrain, Elijah Phillips, John Wood, Alexander Posey, John Beach, John R. Williams, Milton Alexander, Isaac R. Moores, Lloyd J. Beall, David Bailey, Waubonsie, Chief Oshkosh, Orville Hickman Browning, William McMurtry, Henry Atkinson, Theophilus W. Smith, Elizabeth Armstrong, Joseph Duncan, Senachewine, Samuel Whiteside, Thomas Duncan, James Semple, Keokuk, John Bullock Clark, Isaiah Stillman, James Clyman, Adam W. Snyder, Antoine LeClaire, Wabokieshiek, Wapello, Joseph Naper, John Jameson, John Allen Wakefield, Thomas Carlin, Neapope, Charles Dunn, Gustavus Loomis, John Hawkins Rountree, Thomas P. Burnett, Wapasha II, Checokalako, Towaunonne, Pamisseu. Excerpt: Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination. As president, he led the country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis-the American Civil War-preserving the Union while ending slavery and promoting economic modernization. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, he was mostly self-...