(Originally black and white), days after the battle of Antietam, the largest battle of the American Civil War, centered on the liberation of slaves, and the rejection of the southern states of that liberation and separation from the first day that Lincoln was elected president on 4 March 1861.
To the right of Lincoln stands the commander of the American Army Army General George McClellan, who failed to achieve a decisive or overwhelming victory in the Battle of Antinam against the southern forces led by Robert Edward Lee. More than 22,000 people were killed, wounded and missing from both sides in the battle that took place on September 17, 1862, and the South withdrew tactically, and Lincoln went to the front of the battle (and picked up this picture) to encourage the federal army against the separatists, despite the slight victory is inconclusive, Lincoln issued five days after the battle declaration of the first liberation of slaves, All persons owned as slaves in the states The Confederation are free from 1 January 1863 forever. "
In the spring of 1865, after four years of civil war, the armies of the southern states surrendered, and slavery ended in all of them. The United States of America at the end of the war on 9 May 1865, but days before, April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated while attending a play entitled "Our American Relative" at the Ford Theater in Washington, assassinated by a pro-South representative named John Wilcooth Booth, In the beginning is the abduction of Lincoln To weaken the federal rule and allow the secession of the southerners. But when Lincoln's April 11 speech in which he declared his pro-black vote for the army, Booth decided to kill Lincoln and was shot in the theater, Lincoln's first thought was that he had been hit in the shoulder, Injury in the back of his head, the president died after 9 hours.
Three days before he was assassinated, Lincoln told his friend and writer Ward Hill about security: I arrived at the East Room and entered. There I found a grotesque surprise. I had a funeral coffin surrounded by a funeral body, and a group of people covered with faces. Sadly on the body, others cry. "Who's Dead in the White House?" One of the soldiers asked, "The president, he was assassinated by a murderer" was his answer, and then the crowd began to cry out loud, awakening me from my dream. I did not go to sleep that night, and although it was just a dream