The Gettysburg Address and the Biography of Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president of the United States of America. Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809. He was born in a small town called Hadin County, located in Kentucky. Abraham Lincoln's parents were born in Virginia. Abraham Lincoln had four sons whose names were: Robert, Edward, William and Thomas. His wife's name is Mary Todd Lincoln. Everyone in the North wanted Abraham Lincoln as president because they didn't want slavery in their country. When Abraham Lincoln took office a month later, he began a war against the South. This war is called the Civil War. The Union army against the Confederate army fought the battle. This battle began on April 12, 1861 at Fort Sumter, South Carolina. Abraham Lincoln was the leader of the North also called Union. He wanted to end slavery in the South because he wanted every man to be treated equally. Well, the south disagrees with Abraham Lincoln because the south believes in slavery and it was their own country. So whatever Abraham Lincoln does in the North will have no effect on the South. Abraham Lincoln was trying to end slavery by running the election of 1860. He was opposing Southern abolitionists. Well, the 1860 election didn't go according to plan, the South refused to end slavery, and they couldn't care what Abraham Lincoln had to say about it. The Southern general at that time was Robert E. Lee. He was a great general, but Abraham Lincoln was much better than he had ever been. Abraham Lincoln made a plan as the South did not want to end slavery. Abraham Lincoln intended to blockade the Atlantic Ocean so that the South would not trade with other countries in the world... middle of paper... cate -- we cannot consecrate -- we cannot sanctify -- this land. The brave men, living and dead, who fought here, have hallowed it, far beyond our poor power to add or subtract. The world will little notice, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they have done here. Rather, it is up to us who are alive to dedicate ourselves here to the unfinished work, which those who fought here have so far carried on so nobly. It behooves us rather to devote ourselves here to the great task which remains before us—that from these honored dead we derive a greater devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here earnestly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, will have a new birth of freedom - and that the government of the people, by the people, for the people, will not perish from the earth.”