#President Lincoln

[deadpresidents]

God damn your god damned old hellfired god damned soul to hell god damn you and goddam your god damned family's god damned hellfired god damned soul to hell and god damnation god damn them and god damn your god damn friends to hell.

Letter from a citizen to President-elect Abraham Lincoln, November 25, 1860.

I can't prove it, but I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that this citizen didn't vote for Lincoln.

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Mount Rushmore, Detail of the face of President Lincoln, South Dakota, USA

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sketched one of The Boys

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Looking up at Lincoln.

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#OTD in 1809: President Abraham Lincoln was born. 

While serving as the 16th President of the United States, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 — paving the way for the abolition of slavery years later.

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Something for "The Party of Lincoln" to think about:

[idkillbabynevillechamberlain]

My piece “Lincolns Prayer” done with graphite and carbon pencils on paper, and using photos of lincoln, and ai photos as references.

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Tragic Auction: President Lincoln's Theater Tickets Up for Sale!

Discover the latest news about the rare front-row tickets from the night President Abraham Lincoln was shot in 1865. These historic artifacts are now up for auction and expected to fetch a hefty sum.

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#OTD in 1814 – Birth of Sister Anthony (born Mary Ellen O’Connell) in Limerick.

A Sister of Charity of Cincinnati, she served with distinction as a nurse on the front lines of the American Civil War. Her work with the wounded and in health care in general caused her to be known as “Angel of the Battlefield” and “Florence Nightingale of America.” Her portrait hangs in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Mary Ellen O’Connell was born in Limerick, the daughter of…

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Upholstered Seat Rocking Chair

1855-1865

This is the actual chair that President Lincoln was assassinated in on April 14, 1865. Originally located in the President's box at Ford's Theater, Washington, D.C.

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Located at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI

[deadpresidents]

After President Abraham Lincoln was shot during a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre, several doctors who were in the audience and also enjoying the play rushed into the Presidential Box and began attending to the President. It was clear that Lincoln's wounds were almost certainly mortal, but the doctors still attempted to save his life. Originally thinking that the President had been stabbed, they soon found that he had been shot behind the left ear and the bullet -- a 43.75 mm ball which had been fired by John Wilkes Booth's .44 caliber Derringer -- had sliced through Lincoln's brain and lodged behind his eye sockets without exiting the skull. When Lincoln's breathing became more shallow, Dr. Charles Leale used his finger to remove blood clots from the wound, which immediately improved Lincoln's respiration.

The doctors decided to move Lincoln from the theater, but felt that the President's condition was far too weak to risk taking him back to the White House, which was several blocks away. A nearby saloon was considered just as unseemly of a place for the President to spend his last hours and likely die in as a theatre, so Lincoln was carried across the 10th Street to William Petersen's boarding house. When they brought Lincoln into the boarding house, they realized that the 6'4" President was too tall for the bed they found for him, so they laid him diagonally upon it.

It was obvious that Lincoln could not survive his wound, so the attending doctors simply tried to keep him comfortable in his final hours by clearing the blood clots in his skull that caused his breathing to become more labored. Throughout the night, the President never regained consciousness, but witnesses said that he looked peaceful as his life was drawing to a close. The only visible evidence of his mortal wound were the bloody pillows that his head rested on and the raccoon-like bruising around Lincoln's eye sockets due to the orbital bones fractured by Booth's bullet after it passed through his brain. Nine hours after he was shot, Lincoln died in Petersen's Boarding House at the age of 56.

Shortly after the President was pronounced dead, his body was placed in a coffin and transferred back to the White House in a carriage. Just a few hours later, one of the residents of Petersen's Boarding House, Julius Ulke, took a photograph (seen at the beginning of this post) of the room and the bed -- including a pillow soaked with the President's blood -- where Lincoln had died earlier that morning.

The room in Petersen's Boarding House where Abraham Lincoln died, pictured in 2007.

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Presidential Assassination Attempts Past and Present

  In today’s episode of ‘Lest We Forget Historical,’ host Lillian Cauldwell explores the history of assassination attempts on U.S. presidents. She highlights the recent September 15 incident on a golf course involving potential presidential candidate Donald Trump. Assassination attempts on presidents have become alarmingly frequent. Consider this: Of the 45 men elected to the presidency since the…

[zombiecastiell]

when i first watched fallen idols i legitimately thought that the dude Aberham Lincoln was killing was like john milk booths great great great grand son or something

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Jack the Ripper and Abraham Lincoln - by Tony McMahon

For two years, I’ve been investigating the Jack the Ripper case – pouring over the original police and court records, as well as contemporary newspaper reports and other evidence. What I’ve uncovered will amaze you. On May 28, 2024 – I will reveal all in a new book: Jack the Ripper and Abraham Lincoln (Troubador publishing). The spark for this investigation was an appearance on the documentary…