President Abraham Lincoln asked for 500,000 volunteers to join the military service.
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Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving Day a national holiday.
The Republican Party nominated Abraham Lincoln for president at the 1860 Republican National Convention.
President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Acts into law.
Abraham Lincoln issued an order called 'eye-for-eye,' allowing Union soldiers to one rebel prisoner for every black prisoner the Confederacy shot.
Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States of America.
