#abraham lincoln

[nattstund]

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[almackey]

Impact of Revolutionary War on Civil War Era

This is a panel on how the Revolutionary War era impacted the American Civil War. The video’s description reads, “Historians explored the impact of the American Revolution on the Civil War era at a Washington, D.C. conference organized by the Jack Miller Center and the American Revolution Institute.” https://www.c-span.org/program/america-250/impact-of-revolutionary-war-on-civil-war-era/673511

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[mswyrr]

"I more than suspect already that [the president] is deeply conscious of being in the wrong—that he feels the blood of this war, like the blood of Abel, is crying to Heaven against him. That originally having some strong motive—what, I will not stop now to give my opinion concerning—to involve the two countries in a war, and trusting to escape scrutiny, by fixing the public gaze upon the exceeding brightness of military glory—that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood—that serpent’s eye that charms to destroy—he plunged into it and has swept on and on till, disappointed in his calculation of the ease with which Mexico might be subdued, he now finds himself he knows not where. How like the half insane mumbling of a fever-dream is the whole war part of his late message! . . . His mind, tasked beyond its power, is running hither and thither, like some tortured creature on a burning surface, finding no position on which it can settle down and be at ease." --Congressman Abraham Lincoln commenting on President James Polk's mendacious invasion of Mexico and the Mexican-American War, 1846

[heavensong]

These are taken in such bad lighting lol but I doodled these Abes a week or so ago and liked how they came out.

[bignaz8]

THE DEATH OF MARY LINCOLN

On July 16, 1882, the final turbulent years of Mary Todd Lincoln came to an end. Mary never really recovered from the death of her husband, Abraham, who had been killed by an assassin after the end of the Civil War. Although often seen as "difficult" throughout her life, she became almost unhinged by grief following the deaths of her son, Willie, and her husband. After Lincoln was shot, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton ordered Mary from her husband's death room because she was so bereaved.

As a widow, Mrs. Lincoln returned to Illinois and lived in Chicago with her sons. In an act approved by a low margin on July 14, 1870, the United States Congress granted Mrs. Lincoln a life pension in the amount of $3,000 a year. Mary had lobbied hard for such a pension, writing numerous letters to Congress and urging patrons such as Simon Cameron to petition on her behalf. She insisted that she deserved a pension just as much as the widows of soldiers, as she portrayed her husband as a fallen commander. At the time, it was unprecedented for widows of presidents, and Mary Lincoln had alienated many congressmen, making it difficult for her to gain approval.

Death visited the Lincolns again in July 1871 and claimed the life of Thomas (Tad), which led to overwhelming grief and depression for Mary. Her surviving son, Robert Lincoln, a rising young Chicago lawyer, was alarmed at his mother's increasingly erratic behavior. In March 1875, during a visit to Jacksonville, Florida, Mary became unshakably convinced that Robert was deathly ill. She traveled to Chicago to see him, but found he was not sick.

In Chicago, she told her son that someone had tried to poison her on the train and that a "wandering Jew" had taken her pocketbook but would return it later. During her stay in Chicago with her son, Mary spent large amounts of money on items she never used, such as draperies and elaborate dresses -- she wore only black after her husband's assassination. She would walk around the city with $56,000 in government bonds sewn into her petticoats. Despite this large amount of money and the $3,000 a year stipend from Congress, Mrs. Lincoln had an irrational fear of poverty. After she nearly jumped out of a window to escape a non-existent fire, her son determined that she should be institutionalized.

On May 20, 1875, he committed her to a private asylum in Batavia, Illinois. Three months after being committed to Bellevue Place, Mary Lincoln devised her escape. She smuggled letters to her lawyer, James B. Bradwell, who was not only her friend but fellow Spiritualist. She also wrote to the editor of the Chicago Times. Soon, the public embarrassments that Robert had hoped to avoid were looming, and his character and motives were in question, as he controlled his mother's finances. The director of Bellevue at Mary's trial had assured the jury she would benefit from treatment at his facility. In the face of potentially damaging publicity, he declared her well enough to go to Springfield to live with her sister, Elizabeth Edwards.

Mary Lincoln was released into the custody of her sister in Springfield. In 1876, she was declared competent to manage her own affairs. After the court proceedings, though, Mary was so enraged that she attempted suicide. She went to the hotel pharmacist and ordered enough laudanum to kill herself, but he realized her intent and gave her a harmless prescription. The earlier committal proceedings had resulted in Mary being profoundly estranged from her son Robert, and they did not reconcile until shortly before her death.

Mrs. Lincoln spent the next four years traveling throughout Europe and took up residence in France. Her final years were marked by declining health. She suffered from severe cataracts that reduced her eyesight. This condition may have contributed to her increasing susceptibility to falls. In 1879, she suffered spinal cord injuries in a fall from a stepladder.

During the early 1880s, Mary Lincoln was confined to the Springfield, Illinois residence of her sister Elizabeth Edwards. She died there on July 16, 1882, at age 63. She was interred in the Lincoln Tomb in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield alongside her husband. Hopefully, in this quiet place -- next to her beloved husband -- Mary has finally found some peace.

[yunmodaochu]

都是约稿

These aren't draw by me.Don't take.I love Lincoln🥹

I'm slowly posting the previous pictures here.

[4-frontierusa]

Save America!

[neon-knight]

tl:dr - "If I had more time, I would have written less."

Whoever it was that said that, they were fuckin cooking with that one. But yeah, basically. I think the best games (or art in general) are those where the edges of the page are obvious the fastest.