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President Lincoln



President Lincoln was born in 1860 and he was assasinated in 1865 during his presidency. President Lincoln was sworn into office in 1861. Lincoln's goal as a president was to preserve the Union. He issused the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 to free slaves living in the south, and in 1963 he called upon the free blacks to join the Union army.

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