dcMemorials.com << Previous -- Home -- Next >> Full list of all 1,000+ -- Indexed by Subject -- Indexed by Location -- Indexed by Artist Buy THE Definitive Guide to D.C. Sculpture The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington, D.C. LINCOLN Park: Emancipation Memorial at Lincoln Park in Washington, D.C. by Thomas Ball Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the sixteenth President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1861 until his assassination. As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States, Lincoln won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year. During his term, he helped preserve the United States by leading the defeat of the secessionist Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. He introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of slavery, issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoting the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865. Lincoln closely supervised the victorious war effort, especially the selection of top generals, including Ulysses S. Grant. Source: Wikipedia Holding a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation in his right hand, Lincoln looks on a newly unshackled slave. A vine has grown around the ring on whipping post where the chain was once secured. The monument was funded entirely by the contributions of freed slaves & the last person to be captured under the Fugitive Slave Act, Archer Alexander, was the model for the freed slave. Click here for more attractions related to the Civil War & here for more related to Lincoln. Please thank our sponsors below for helping make this page possible! Find out how you can have a dcMemorials page to call YOUR own! Are you thinking about moving to Washington DC? Do you have a home in Washington yet? If you're looking for the best home, consider a modular home in Washington! If you're in the market for a new house, modular homes are the way to go; they can be custom built at a significantly lower price than regular homes! Sign online today for information on modular homes! 7/6/08 (psloancode2) Click here to purchase photos Location index - Home - 00222_0000002570.jpg recorded 2006-7 - Top - Full index More info about this attraction & others nearby           Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalog: Control #76004862 Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.dcMemorials.com Click here to purchase photos Location index - Home - 00222_0000002580.jpg recorded 2006-7 - Top - Full index More info about this attraction & others nearby           Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalog: Control #76004862 Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.dcMemorials.com Click here to purchase photos Location index - Home - 00222_0000002590.jpg recorded 2006-7 - Top - Full index More info about this attraction & others nearby           Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalog: Control #76004862 Click here to purchase photos Location index - Home - 00222_0000002600.jpg recorded 2006-7 - Top - Full index Click here to purchase photos Location index - Home - 00222_0000002610.jpg recorded 2006-7 - Top - Full index "And upon this act sincerely believed to be an act of justice warranted by the constitutionupon military necessity I invoke the considerate judgement of mankind and the gracious favor of almightyGod." A. Lincoln Emancipation Proclamation Jany.1.1863 Western Sanitary Commission James E. Yeatman President. C.S. Creeley Treas: Ceo. Partridge. Dr. J.B. Johnson Wm. C. Eliot. Click here to purchase photos Location index - Home - 00222_0000002620.jpg recorded 2006-7 - Top - Full index FREEDOM'S MEMORIAL In grateful memory of ABRAHAM LINCOLN This monument was erected by the Western Sanitary Commission of Saint Louis Mo: With funds contributed solelyby emancipated citizens of the United States declared free by his proclamation January 1st A.D. 1863. The first contribution of five dollars was made by Charlotte Scott. A freedwoman of Virginia being her first earnings in freedom and consecrated by her suggestion and requeston the day she heard of President Lincoln's death to build a monument to his memory Click here to purchase photos Location index - Home - 00222_0000002640.jpg recorded 2006-7 - Top - Full index Notice the Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial in the foreground Click here to purchase photos Location index - Home - 00222_0000002650.jpg recorded 2006-7 - Top - Full index Click here to purchase photos Click here to purchase photos Location index - Home - 00222_0000002660.jpg recorded 2006-7 - Top - Full index Click here to purchase photos Location index - Home - 00222_0000002680.jpg recorded 2006-7 - Top - Full index Click here to purchase photos Click here to purchase photos Location index - Home - 00222_0000002690.jpg recorded 2006-7 - Top - Full index Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.dcMemorials.com

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