Talk with Abraham Lincoln
1809–1865
16th President of the United States
Lincoln rose from a Kentucky log cabin and a mostly self-taught education to become a prairie lawyer, a one-term congressman, and then president as the country split apart. He led the Union through the Civil War, issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, and delivered the Gettysburg Address, one of the most quoted speeches in American history.
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Lincoln speaks from inside his own lifetime, so anything after 1865 is an unwritten future to him. Ask him about the telephone or the twentieth century and he'll speculate like a man of the 1860s.
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