My name is Abraham Lincoln. I was born on February 12, 1809, in a single room log cabin in Kentucky.

When I was 7 years old, my family packed what we owned onto a wagon and we moved to Indiana.

After we moved to Indiana, my mother passed away from Milksickness in 1816. She contracted this from drinking the milk of a cow that had eaten a poisonous plant.

My father married a few years later in 1819 to Sarah who helped encourage my passion for learning and reading.

While I was in school I helped my family on the farm and I became really good at wrestling. My family moved again in 1830.

This time to New Salem, Illinois. Here I became the County Wrestling Champion at 21 years old.

I had a 12 year wrestling career where I amassed 300 victories. I only had 1 loss to Hank Thompson while I was serving in the Black Hawk War. 

The Black Hawk War started in 1832 and I volunteered. I was elected Captain of the company in which I served. I joked after the war that although I did not fight any Indians, I did have many a fight against the mosquitos!

In 1834 I was elected to the Illinois General Assembly and began studying law. 

In 1836 I was elected to the Illinois General Assembly and graduated with my Law Degree.

From 1837 to 1842 I work really hard to establish my law career to where I launch my own law practice in Springfield, Illinois. During this time I met Mary Todd and we married on Novemeber 4, 1843. 

Mary and I had 4 boys over the next few years. Robert Todd Lincoln in 1844. Eddie Baker Lincoln in 1846. Willie Wallace Lincoln in 1850. And Thomas "Tad" Lincoln in 1853. Only Robert Todd survived to adult hood out of all of my sons.

From 1846-1847 I served on the US House of Representatives as my first venture into Politics. By the 1850's I began thinking my political career was over after not being elected to the Senate and began practicing law again.

In 1856 I helped organize the New Republican Party of Illinois. It was with the Republican Party that I ran for President in 1860. On November 6, 1860 I officially became the 16th President of the United States of America.

Lincoln's First Inagural Address: 1860

My political career was based on my belief that all men were equal. Once I became President, the Southern states were afraid of me ending slavery in the country. With this fear, the state of South Carolina left the Union on December 20, 1860. They and 10 other states would form the Conderate States of America and start the Civil War.

The Battle of Fort Sumter that 

kicked off the Civil War.

The Union army from the Northern States did not start the war off well at all. We had many defeats in the first two years of the war and I had to replace many Generals. 

The Battle of Bull Run.

On January 1, 1863, I issued the Emancipation Proclamation which freed all slaves in all states. This is what I am most well known for. 

In the summer of 1863, the Union Army won the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. This victory is considered the turning point of the Civil War. That November I gave a speech in Gettysburg called the Gettysburg Address.