1842 November 4. Marries Mary Todd. 1846 Elected to Congress. 1848 Declines reëlection to Congress. 1849 Returns to Springfield to widen his law practice. Engages in this until 1854. 1851 January 17. Thomas Lincoln (Abraham's father) dies in Coles County, Illinois. 1854 Lincoln's family now consisted of three sons (one had died in his infancy); his law practice remunerative. 1855 Debates with Douglas at Peoria and Springfield. Elected to State Legislature; resigns to seek U. S. Senatorship, but defeated by Douglas, is reëlected. 1855} Aids in organizing Republican party. 1856} 1858 Joint debates in Illinois with Stephen A. Douglas. 1859 Makes political speeches in Ohio, Kansas, etc. 1860 February. Lincoln tours New England; visits New York, and speaks at Cooper Institute, being introduced by W. C. Bryant. March 16-18. Chicago Republican Convention. Unanimously nominated for President; Hannibal Hamlin, Vice-President. November 6. Elected President over J. C. Breckenridge, Stephen A. Douglas, and John Bell. 1861 March 4. Inaugurated President (the sixteenth). April 15. Issues first order for troops to put down the Rebellion. 1862 February. President Lincoln's son Willie dies in the White House. March. The President as acting Commander-in-chief overrules General McClellan and Council of War as to immediate forward movement. July 2. Calls for 300,000 three-years troops. August 4. Calls for 300,000 men, special, nine months. 1863 January 1. Issues the Emancipation Proclamation. July 1-4. Victories for the Union armies. Battle of Gettysburg, Pa.; defeat for General Lee's Army. Vicksburg captured by General Grant. Lincoln thanks Grant for the capture. September 17. Calls for 300,000 three-years troops. November 19. His address at Gettysburg. 1864 February. Calls for 500,000 volunteers. Renominated and reëlected President. 1865 March 4. Lincoln inaugurated, the second term. April 14. The President assassinated by J. Wilkes Booth, at Washington. He dies the next morning. May 4. Burial at Springfield, Ill. * * * * * Transcriber Note The illustration provided at the end of The Internet Archive was assumed to be the cover for this volume and was moved before the frontispiece. For those songs displayed in scores, the verses were rejoined. All footnotes were placed as near their anchors as possible. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Lincoln Day Entertainments, by Various