1860 Abraham Lincoln http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/gal/nandhlinc1.html

Presedent Elect Lincoln 1861 http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/

First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jala/17.2/schwartz.html

Mary Todd Lincoln Portrait http://womenshistory.about.com/library/pic/bl_p_mary_todd_lincoln.htm

Vice President Hannibal Hamlin 1861-1865 http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2008/02/

Secretary of State William H. Seward 1861-1866 http://www.rootsweb.com/~nycayuga/ugrr/pg1.html

1809 Painting of Nancy Hanks Lincoln - Abraham Lincoln's mother http://www.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/126libo/126visual5.htm

1809 Thomas Herring Lincoln - Abraham Lincoln's father http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/Moments08RS/02_web_leg_moments.htm

1819 Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln became Lincoln's stepmother when he was ten years old. http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/gal/chs30372.html

Lincoln was elected militia company Captain in 1932 in the Blackhawk War http://www.ngb.army.mil/resources/photo_gallery/presidential/lincoln.html

1832 Chief Black Hawk http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/blackhawk/

1832 Scene from the Black Hawk War - Lincoln Defends the Aged Warrior http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/blackhawk/gal/browne108.html#about

1842 Married Mary Todd Lincoln http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/reference/wak/presidents/lincoln_abraham.html

1844 William Herndon - Lincoln's law partner http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/gal/browne187.html

Abraham Lincoln's longtime friend Joshua Speed and wife Fannie Speed http://www.mrlincolnandfriends.org/photo_credits_print.asp?photoID=17

1846 Abraham Lincoln's first known photograph http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/

1850 Abraham Lincoln's son Eddie Lincoln died at age 4 of tuberculosis. http://supermisc.blogspot.com/2009/02/happy-200th-mr-lincoln.html

1858 Lincoln-Douglas Debate http://www.lib.niu.edu/1999/ihy990232.html

1858 Robert Marshall Root painting of Lincoln-Douglas Debate at Charleston http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2001/iht820111.html

1858 Judge Stephen A. Douglas debated Lincoln http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2001/iht820111.html

Anti-slavery Senator William Pitt Fessenden of Maine became Lincoln's Treasury Secretary http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hon._Wm._Pitt_Fessenden_of_Maine.png

1858 http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/main/index.php?q=node/9596

Lincoln picture with Mark Twain Quote http://www.twainquotes.com/Lincoln.html

1859 Presidential Candidate Abraham Lincoln http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3252917783/in/set-72157613324367705/

President Abraham Lincoln http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/johnson1/johnson.html

Lincoln by Mathew Brady 1860 http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/

1860 http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/blacks-civil-war/images/lincoln-portrait.gif

1860 http://www.loc.gov/shop/images/catalog/items/enlarge/enlarge_ablilapodabe.jpg

Horatio Nelson Taft, Jr. ("Bud") and Halsey Cook Taft ("Holly") were close friends of Willie and Tad Lincoln http://home.att.net/~rjnorton/Lincoln68.html

Abraham Lincoln family picture with sons Robert (eldest), Tad, and Willie http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1995/ihy950234.html

1860 Lincoln elected. Presidential Candidate Vice President John C. Breckinridge had 72 votes vs 180 with running mate Joseph Lane. Breckinridge later became the Confederate Secretary of War. Joseph Lane was a former Mexican War General and the first Oregon Governor http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/Moments06RS/31_web_leg_moments.htm

1860 Third party Presidential Candidate Senator John Bell received 39 votes with running mate former Massachusetts Senator and Governor and Secretary of State Edward Everett http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/sw-sa/Bell.htm

1860 Third party Presidential Candidate Senator Stephen A. Douglas received 12 votes with running mate H. V. Hudson http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/nation/jb_nation_litgiant_1_e.html

1861 http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1861/april/abraham-lincoln-biography-picture.htm

1861 Senator Edward Baker serving as a Colonel was killed at the Battle of Balls Bluff. He was the only sitting Senator to die in the war. Baker was a friend and former law partner of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln's son Eddie was named for Senator Baker. http://www.search.com/reference/Edward_Dickinson_Baker

1861 1st Civil War Casualty Col. Elmer Ephraim Ellsworth was a personal friend of President Lincoln http://www.suvpac.org/camp23/ellsworthbio.html

Speaker of the House Galusha A. Grow 1861-1863 http://www.explorepahistory.com/displayimage.php?imgId=2298

Abraham Lincoln inspects Rodman gun at Fort Monroe, Virginia http://www.civilwarartillery.com/inventors/Rodman.htm

Antietam 1962 http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/

1862 Abraham Lincoln's son Willie died of typhoid fever at White House. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Lincoln

Supreme Court Justice Noah Haynes Swayne 1862-1881 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Haynes_Swayne

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Freeman Miller 1862-1890 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Freeman_Miller

At Antietam with Gen. McLellan http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lincoln_visiting_McClellan_and_Troops_at_Antietam,_New_York_Times,_1862.JPG

Supreme Court Justice David Davis 1862-1877 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Davis_(Supreme_Court_justice)

1863 at Gettysberg http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Gettysburg.html

by Mathew Brady 1863 http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/lincpix/b63.jpg

1863 Lincoln and Commanders http://wwwpublic.ignet.army.mil/History_of_the_IG.htm

Thomas (Tad) Lincoln on his horse at the Soldier's Home http://lincolncottage.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/10-things-to-know-about-tad-lincolns-summers-at-soldiers-home/

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Johnson Field 1863-1897 http://www.usdoj.gov/marshals/history/neagle/neagle6.htm

June 20, 1863 West Virginia Statehood http://library.educationworld.net/statefacts/wv.html

Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax 1863-1869 later became Vice President under Grant http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/fl/f63%7D2.htm

by Mathew Brady 1864 http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/brady/albumen/alblinc.htm

1864 http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/

with son Thomas "Tad" 1864 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A&TLincoln.jpg

October 31, 1864 Nevada Statehood http://www.whitmanbooks.com/Default.aspx?Page=81&ProductID=1248M

1864 Lincoln re-elected. Presidential Candidate Civil War Gen. George B. McClellan had 21 votes vs 212 with running mate Ohio Senator G. H. Pendleton. McLellan became Governor of New Jersey in 1878 http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~dag/4thtex/history/mcclellan.html

Supreme Court Justice Salmon P. Chase as Chief 1864-1873 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_P._Chase

Second Inauguration 1865 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_(president)

October 1865 by Gardiner http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web07/features/see_it_now/16.053.html

Lee Surrenders 1865 http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/

1865 http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/lincpix/box.jpg

Vice President Andrew Johnson 1865-1865 http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1864/governor-andrew-johnson.htm

1865 Robert Lincoln, son of President Abraham Lincoln, half-length portrait, seated http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3252914453/in/set-72157613324367705/

1885 Secretary of War, Robert Todd Lincoln, son of the President http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/sw-sa/Lincoln.htm

Lincoln Memorial http://www.arrakeen.ch/usaaug98/usaaug98.html

Lincoln Memorial http://flickr.com/photos/lightfactor/843503266/

Lincoln Memorial http://flickr.com/photos/lightfactor/843503266/