10-day forecast. 1  Weather News. 2  Dangerous surf will threaten some beachgoers this weekend AccuWeather. 3  Big Sur usually canât keep people away.  Several states at risk of hail, floods during stormy Easter weekend AccuWeather.
Abraham Lincoln, a self-taught Illinois lawyer, legislator and opponent of slavery, was elected president in November 1860âbut by the time of his inauguration in March 1861, seven Southern states had seceded, and the Civil War began a few weeks later.
And, unfortunately, with the assasination of President Abraham Lincoln, but the process of reconciliation had to remain on track. President Andrew Johnson, taking over the Lincoln, declared hostilities over on May 10, marking the end of the war period. Three months later he would announce the restoration of civil government in the former confederate states.