Reconstruction was part of the contest for the next presidential elections. Lincoln was reelected on the belief that he should better finish the difficult job he had already started.
Category - Second Administration
Reconstruction
Reconstruction started by asserting power in Confederate lands by setting appointed military governors and replacing existing Confederate governments.
Inauguration of Second Term
President Lincoln's second term inauguration took place on March 4, 1865 at the Capitol in the Nation's Capital.
Second Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln
At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the...
Assassination
Abraham Lincoln died at 7:22 am on April 15, 1865. He was 56 years old. He was shot by John Wilkes Booth.