President Abraham Lincoln asked for 500,000 volunteers to join the military service.
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President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Acts into law.
One of the greatest speeches of all American history, The Gettysburg Address, was given by Abraham Lincoln.
President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
Abraham Lincoln issued an order called 'eye-for-eye,' allowing Union soldiers to one rebel prisoner for every black prisoner the Confederacy shot.
South Carolina seceded from the United States of America.
