... that far fiercer thing, was the barbarian of civilization. Abraham Lincoln was born to a poor and humble family on February 12 1809, in Hodgenville, Kentucky, the Lincoln family moved to Pigeon Creek in Indiana and settled there where his mother Nancy passed away. Thomas Lincoln Abraham's father got married the very next year to Sarah Bush she was a very smart woman ... they heard the news, either to start the war or allow the rebellion to collapse, they chose to start the war by attacking Fort Sumter on April 12 1861, which left Fort Sumter on a blaze of fire and collapsed. Lincoln's t...

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