Elected the Sixteenth President of the United States on November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated on March 4, 1861.  Several states had already seceded from the Union, and his presidency was dominated by the American Civil War.  The war was nearing its end when Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865, and died the next day.

    Series III includes the massive documentary record of an active president engaged in leading a nation during wartime.