February 12 is Abraham Lincoln's birthday

                               

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was the 16th president of the USA 1861-65, a Republican. In the American Civil War, his chief concern was the preservation of the Union from which the Confederate (Southern) slave states had seceded on his election. In 1863 he announced the freedom of the slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation. He was re-elected in 1864 with victory for the North in sight, but was assassinated at the end of the war.