Lincoln traveled to Gettysburgh, Pennsylvania by train the day before he gave the legendary Gettysburgh address. He arrived at the train station and was met by his host, a young lawyer named David Wills
November 4, 1842
Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd were married in the parlor of her sister Elizabeth Edwards.
August 21, 1858
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas held the first of their seven famous debates in the town of Ottawa, Illinois
October 13, 1858
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas took part in their sixth debate in Quincy, Illinois.
January 27, 1838
Lincoln gave one of his earliest recorded speeches to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois – a townto which the 29 year old Lincoln had recently moved. His law partner William Herndon gave an account of the speech, claiming that the background motivation was the news of a “negro” being burned alive in St. […]
1862 Annual Address to Congress
“In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.” [2]
December 1, 1862
Lincoln sent his annual address to Congress. [2]
June 27, 1864
Lincoln officially begins his campaign for the Presidency when he accepts the nomination from the National Union Party. [2]
February 27, 1860
Abraham Lincoln gave his famous Cooper Union Speech in New York City
February 22, 1861
Abe Lincoln spent the day in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.