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Written by Joe Dunn

Illustrated by Rod Espinosa
Colored and lettered by Rod Espinosa
Edited by Stephanie Hedlund
Interior layout and design by Antarctic Press
Cover art by Rod Espinosa
Cover design by Neil Klinepier

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Dunn, Joeming W.
Abraham Lincoln / written by Joe Dunn ; illustrated by Rod Espinosa.
p. cm. -- (Bio-graphics)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-60270-064-2
1. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Juvenile literature. 2. Presidents--United States--Biography-
-Juvenile literature. 3. Graphic novels. I. Espinosa, Rod. II. Title.

E457.905.D86 2008
973.7092--dc22
[B] 2007006437
Chapter 1
A Humble Birth.............................................5

Chapter 2
A Passion for Reading..................................9

Chapter 3
Honest Abe.................................................12

Chapter 4
Early Political Life......................................14

Chapter 5
Congressman Lincoln.................................17

Chapter 6
President Abraham Lincoln......................19

Timeline.................................................28

Further Reading................................................30

Glossary.............................................................31

Web Sites............................................................31

Index..................................................................32
 He is one of the greatest presidents of the United States of America.
He presided over one of the most difficult times in American history.
Under his term, slaves were freed, and the union of states preserved.
He is the great emancipator.
He is Abraham Lincoln!

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February 12, 1809 - Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky.

1833 - Lincoln was appointed Postmaster and then Deputy Surveyor

of New Salem.

August 4, 1834 - Lincoln was elected to the Illinois General

Assembly.

November 4, 1842 - Lincoln married Mary Todd.

August 3, 1846 - Lincoln was elected to the U.S. House of

Representatives.

November 6, 1860 - Lincoln was elected as the 16th President of

the United States.

December 20, 1860 - Southern states started to secede from

the Union.

April 12, 1861 - The Civil War began.

January 1, 1863 - Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation,

freeing all slaves.

November 19, 1863 - Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address.

November 8, 1864 - Lincoln was re-elected president.

April 9, 1865 - Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court

House, ending the Civil War.

April 14, 1865 - While Lincoln was attending a play at Ford’s

Theater, John Wilkes Booth shot the President.

April 15, 1865 - President Lincoln died at 7:22 AM.

December 6, 1865 - The 13th Amendment passed, abolishing

slavery.

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UNITED STATES DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

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 Rivera, Sheila. The Gettysburg Address. American Moments.
Edina: ABDO Publishing Company, 2004.

Venezia, Mike. Abraham Lincoln. New York: Scholastic Library

Publishing, 2006.

Warycnia, Lou and Hale, Sarah Elder. Abraham Lincoln:

Defender of the Union. Peterborough: Cobblestone
Publishing, 2005.

Welsbacher, Anne. Abraham Lincoln. The United States

Presidents. Edina: ABDO Publishing Company, 2001.

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amendment - a change to a country’s constitution.

civil war - a war between groups in the same country. The United
States of America and the Confederate States of America fought a
civil war from 1861 to 1865.

Confederate States of America - the country formed by the

states of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana,
Mississippi, Texas, Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, and North
Carolina when they left the Union between 1860 and 1861. It is
also called the Confederacy.

proclamation - an official public announcement.

ratify - to officially approve.

secede - to break away from a group.

Union - the states that remained in the United States during the
Civil War.

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 A K
assassination 26 Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 18
Kentucky 5
B
Black Hawk War 14 L
Booth, John Wilkes 26 Lee, Robert E. 24
Lincoln Memorial 27
C
Civil War 20, 21, 22, 24, 25 M
Confederacy 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 Maryland 21
Constitution 27
P
D Pennsylvania 21
Dred Scott 18 presidency 18, 19, 20, 23

E R
education 7, 9, 10, 16 religion 6
Emancipation Proclamation 22 Republican Party 18

F S
family 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 16, 26 slavery 17, 18, 20, 22, 27
soldier 14
G South Carolina 20
Gettysburg Address 23
Grant, Ulysses S. 24 T
Tennessee River 20
I Thirteenth Amendment 27
Illinois 10, 16, 26
Illinois General Assembly 16 U
Indiana 7 Union 20, 21, 22, 24
U.S. House of Representatives 17
J
jobs 12, 14, 15, 16 V
Virginia 20, 21, 24, 26

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