More Events in My Career

The Emancipation Proclamation

The Emancipation Proclamation,

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_proclamation)was a set of two orders ending slavery, in the southern states that made up the confederacy. I issued it during the American Civil War. The first order that I issued, was on September 22, 1862, and it declared the freedom of all slaves in the Confederate States of America.

The second order, that was issued January 1st, 1863, and it named ten specific states where it would apply.(wikipedia) Even though most slaves weren't freed immediately, the day that the Proclamation went into effect, it brought freedom to thousands of slaves.

Lincoln Assassination

The assassination of me, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_assassination)President Lincoln, took place on good friday on April 14, 1865, and was one of the last major events in the American Civil War. I was shot during a performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre. I was there with two guests and my wife.

My assassin was an actor and confederate sympathizer who also planned and plotted to kill the vice president, but that was a bigger plot. The assassin wanted to make a better place for the south, by assassinating me, and even though the assassin did kill me, the larger plot had failed. The original plan made by the assassin, John Wilkes Booth, only involved kidnapping me. He plotted to kidnap me and take me down south, hold me hostage there, and force my government finish exchanging prisoners afterwards. Instead, Booth went ahead with the assassination.

-Emma D.-