Short answers, pulled from the story.
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. He led the country through the American Civil War, defeated the Confederacy, and played a major role in the abolition of slavery.
Abraham Lincoln was born on the 12th of February 1809 in a one-room log cabin in Kentucky. He was raised on Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln had less than twelve months of formal schooling and taught himself the law by borrowing texts such as Blackstone's Commentaries and Chitty's Pleadings. He was admitted to the Illinois bar on the 9th of September 1836 and later said he studied with nobody.
The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by Abraham Lincoln on the 1st of January 1863, declared free the slaves in the ten states still in rebellion, while exempting areas already under Union control. It made the enlistment of freedmen official Union policy.
The Gettysburg Address was a speech Abraham Lincoln delivered on the 19th of November 1863 to dedicate the Gettysburg battlefield cemetery. In it he called the nation dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal and became the most quoted speech in American history.
Abraham Lincoln was fatally shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on the evening of the 14th of April 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin. He died at 7:22 am on the 15th of April, becoming the first U.S. president to be assassinated.