Abraham Lincoln
Politician. Whig (Before 1854), Republican (1854 to 1864). National Union (1864 to 1865). Lawyer.
Lincoln knowing that the economy was dependent on Slavery … “My paramount objective is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it”.[3]
9 Apr 1865 - The Surrender of Appomattox. General Robert E. Lee surrenders his Confederate Army to General Ulysses S. Grant.[7]
3 Apr 1865 - Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as President for his second term.[7]
31 Jan 1865 - The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed calling for the emancipation of all slaves with no compensation to their owners. It ends slavery in the United States.[7]
1864 - Abraham Lincoln is re-elected president.[7]
17 Feb 1864 - Sinking of the Confederate Submarine, the Hunley.[7]
1864 - General Ulysses S. Grant is appointed to command all of the armies of the United States. General Sherman succeeds Grant as the Western commander.
Dec 1863 - Lincoln’s Plan for Reconstruction. On December 3, 1863, he issued the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction.[7]
19 Nov 1863 - Lincoln makes his famous Gettysburg Address and dedicates a portion of the Gettysburg battlefield as a national cemetery.[7]
Jul 1863 - General Ulysses S. Grant is made lieutenant general for the Union.
13 to 16 Jul 1863 - Draft riots erupt in New York City.[7]
3 Jul 1863 - The Battle of Gettysburg - a important Union victory but incurred massive casualties.[7]
3 Mar 1863 - The Conscription Act is passed.[7]
25 Feb 1863 - The National Banking Act.[7]
1 Jan 1863 - The Emancipation Proclamation - The war to preserve the Union now becomes a revolutionary struggle for the abolition of slavery.[7]
22 Sep 1862 - President Abraham Lincoln issued a Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation that changed the war aims of the Union.[7]
17 Sep 1862 - The Battle of Antietam of was fought, the bloodiest single day battle in the history of America.[7]
20 May 1862 - The Homestead Act was passed.[7]
9 Mar 1862 - Attack of the Union fleet in the Battle of the Ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimac.[7]
8 Nov 1861 - The Trent Affair, a serious diplomatic incident with the British.[7]
Jul 1861 - The coast of the Confederacy states are subject to a blockade.[7]
1861 - The President issues a Proclamation calling for 75,000 militiamen.[7]
1861 - President Lincoln ordered the Union Blockade of the Confederate seaports.[7]
Jul 1861 - To finance the American Civil War, the US issued paper currency ($450m printed approx). for the first time. The currency became known as greenbacks, because it was green on the reverseside. Greenbacks had no public debt associated to it, because it came from the Government as opposed to a private central bank wanting 24 to 36% interest. Lincoln had bypassed them, cutting them out of a profitable war.
Lincoln … “The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credit needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of Government, but is the Government’s greatest creative opportunity. by the adoption of these principles … the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the sevrvant of humanity.”[3]
Meanwhile news of Greenbacks, was not well recieved … “If this mischievious financial policy, which has its origin in North America, shall become endurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off debts and be without debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become presperous without precedent in the history of the world. The brains, and wealth of all countries will go to North America. That country must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe.” - Times of London.[3]
Lincoln … “The money power preys upon the nation in times of peace and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureacucracy.”[3]
Jun 1861 - General Robert E. Lee is appointed commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.[7]
4 Mar 1861 to 15 Apr 1865 - 17th President of the United States. (VP: Hannibal Hamlin 1861 to 1865. Andrew Johnson Mar to Apr 1865)
Late Feb 1861 - Baltimore Plot was an allegded conspiracy to assassinate President-elect Lincoln en route to his auguration. Search mind map … Kate Warne.
Allen Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, played a key role by managing Lincoln security throughout the journey which was re-route, going through Baltimore at night, in disguise.
4 Mar 1847 to 3 Mar 1849 - Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois’s 7th district.
1 Dec 1834 to 4 Dec 1842 - Member of the Illinois House of Repesentatives from Sangamon County.
Died 15 Apr 1865, from Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Age 56.
Search Mind Map … 15 Apr.
Skull and Bones / Others / Related - to be completed.
2 Dec 1859 - Execution of John Brown (Freemason. Abolitionist) - Personal friend of Philip Gray Russell (S&B 1876), son of William Huntingdon Russell co-founder of Skull and Bones)
George Peabody (S&B 1867) - Chairman of the first Lincoln Memorial Commission and a member of the commission that errected the National Lincoln Memorial in Washington.
Constantine C. Esty (S&B 1845)
1867 to 1872 - Assessor of Internal Revenue.
1862 to 1866 - Assessor of Internal Revenue.
Green Clay (S&B 1859)
1862 to 1868 - Secretary of the U.S. Legation at Turin and Florence.
1861 - Secretary of the U.S. Legation at St. Petersburg.
James O. Putnam (S&B 1839)
1861 to 1866 - U.S. Consul in Le Havre, France.
William M. Evarts (S&B 1837)
Special Diplomatic Envoy to Great Britain and France
Henry Hitchcock (S&B 1848)
Lt. Col.; Assistant Adjutant, U.S. Volunteers; Served as Judge Adovcate on the personal staff of Union Army General William T. Sherman by President Abraham Lincoln.
Henry Champion Deming (S&B 1836) - Provisional Mayor of New Orleans under Union Martial Law (October 1862-February 1863)
William Huntington Russell (S&B 1833) - Major-General in the Militia of the State of Connecticut (1862-1870)
Orris Sanford Ferry (S&B 1844) - Brigadier General in the United States Volunteers (1862-1865)
Joseph Cooke Jackson (S&B 1857) - Brevetted Brigadier General in the 6th New Jersey Volunteers.
John Thomas Croxton (S&B 1857) - Major General, Union Army; Commander of Military District of Southwest Georgia at Macon, Ga. (1865)
William Seward Pierson (S&B 1836) - brevetted Brigadier General, Union Army; selected as Mayor of Sandusky, Ohio in 1861
Richard Taylor (S&B 1845) - Lieutenant General in the Confederate Army; Commander of the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana (1864-1865); Commander of the [Confederate] Army of Tennessee (1865); Surrendered to the Union Army near Mobile, Alabama on May 4, 1865; son of former U.S. President Zachary Taylor; Confederate President Jefferson Davis’s brother-in-law.
Henry Rootes Jackson (S&B 1839) - Major General in the Confederate Army; delegate to the Democratic Presidential Convention
at Charleston, South Carolina in 1860; served as a prisoner-of-war after surrendering to the Union Army at the Battle of Nashville in December 1864.
William Preston Johnston (S&B 1852) - Colonel in the Confederate Army; Jefferson Davis’s aide-de-camp; captured by the Union Army
along with Jefferson Davis in Irwinsville, Georgia on May 10, 1865; served as a pallbearer at Gen. Robert E. Lee’s funeral; President of Tulane University (1884-1899); son of Confederate Brigadier General Albert Sidney Johnston, former Secretary of War of the Republic of Texas.
John Perkins Jr. (S&B 1840) - Member of the Confederate House of Representatives for Louisiana [Second Congress] (1864-1865);
Delegate to the Confederate Provisional Congress in Montgomery, Alabama (1861-1862).
William T.S. Barry (S&B 1841) - Chairman of the Mississippi Secession Convention in 1861; Delegate to the Confederate Provisional Congress (1861-1862); Signer of the Confederate Constitution; Colonel in command of the 35th Mississippi Infantry; captured at Mobile, Alabama on April 12, 1865.
Burton Norvell Harrison (S&B 1859) - Private Secretary to Confederate President Jefferson Davis; captured by the Union Army along with Jefferson Davis in Irwinsville, Georgia on May 10, 1865; father of former U.S. Congressman Francis Burton Harrison (S&B 1895).
Hugh White Sheffey (S&B 1835) - Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates (1861-1865).
John Coon (S&B 1847) - From March 1848 until July, 1850, he was confidential clerk to Hon Thomas Ewing, Secretary of the Interior under President Zachary Taylor. Coon was a leading figure in local politics, first in the Whig party, and later the Republican party, serving as a delegate to the county convention in 1855, and chairing the Republican county executive committee in 1860. In 1861 he entered the Union army as Paymaster, and served as such, mainly in the Army of the Cumberland, to the end of the war.
Stephen Wright Kellogg (S&B 1847) - 1860 - he was captain of a company of “Wide Awakes,” which greatly helped in the election of a Republican Governor. 1860, 1868 and 1876 - Delegate to the National Republican Conventions and was a member of the committee which drew up the platform on which Abraham Lincoln was first elected President. 1861 to 1865 - He was active during the Civil War in raising troops and supporting the government, and from 1863 to 1866 was Colonel, and from 1866 to 1870 Brigadier General of the Second Regiment, Connecticut National Guard.
[0] - Whitehouse.gov - Abraham Lincoln
[1] - Spartacus-educational.com - Abraham Lincoln
[2] - FYI - Wiki - Abraham Lincoln
[3] - The Still Report - The Money Masters, 1800 - Abraham Lincoln
[4] The Still Report - The Money Masters, 1800 - reference to American Civil War
[5] - Find a grave.com - Abraham Lincoln
[6]
16th President: Mackey’s Encyclopedia of Freemasonry reports that “Past Grand Master, Swiss Grand Lodge ’Alpina,’ in the Annuaire, International Masonic Association, listed Lincoln among Illustrious Freemasons (p. 44, 1913 and p.59, 1923).
William H. Grimshaw of the Library of Congress also in History of Freemasonry, 1903 (p. 365), lists Lincoln as a Freemason…P.G.M. Grand Lodge Alpina said, “I will further state that Mr. J.H. Brooks, who was Mr. Lincoln’s messenger, informed me that Mr. Lincoln was a Mason. The degrees were conferred in an Army Lodge attached to General Grant’s army in front of Richmond…”in the memorial volume published by the Government in Washington, 1866, there are found the tributes of forty-four foreign Masonic Bodies, most of these plainly referring to Lincoln as a Brother…Brother B.B. French from the Washington office of the Grand Master, Knights Templar, April 21, 1865 [answers a letter], “President Lincoln was not a Mason. He once told me in the presence of Most Worshipful Brother J.W. Simons that he had at one time made up his mind to apply for admission to our Fraternity but that he feared he was too lazy to attend to his duty as a Mason….” In 10,000 Famous Freemasons we read, “In October of 1860 Robert Morris, Q.V., of Kentucky, called on Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois, and in the course of conversation Morris referred to the fact that all Lincoln’s opponents for President were Freemasons. Lincoln replied, ‘I am not a Freemason, Dr. Morris, though I have a great respect for the institution.’”Lincoln’s wife Mary Todd was into the occult. (Fritz Springmeirer, The Illuminati Bloodlines). His Vice-President Andrew Johnson, a Mason, was selected to run on Lincolns re-election ticket in 1864. Edwin M. Stanton, his Secretary of War was an avid Mason.
[7] - Presidential-power.org - Abraham Lincoln - Timeline
[8] - Millercenter.org - Abraham Lincoln - Key Events
[11] - Book - 10,000 Famous Freemasons by William R. Denslow
[13] - Book - Assassination of Lincoln - A History of the Great Conspiracy (1892)
[15] - Book - Abraham Lincoln and the Jews by Markens, Isaac, 1846-1928
[16] - Book - Lincoln and the Jews: A History by Jonathan D. Sarna and Benjamin Shapell
[18] - Book - Edwin Booth: A Biography and Performance History By Arthur W. Bloom
[22] - Website - Lincolnconspirators.com/maps/ - alot of details
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