Abraham Lincoln

"That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

―Lincoln during the Gettysburg Address, 1863.

Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln most notably led the United States through the constitutional, military and moral crisis during the American Civil War.

After foiling a plot to assassinate him – who would later hire the agency as his personal 'secret service' during the American Civil War – Pinkerton garnered a reputation as America's go-to office for counter-intelligence and security operations.

Lincoln was shot by Templar-affiliate John Wilkes Booth on 14 April 1865, and died the next morning. After his assassination, Booth was hunted down and killed by the Assassins.

Trivia

• During his time in captivity as a subject for the Abstergo Industries' Animus Project, Clay Kaczmarek relived the lives of his ancestor who fought during the Battle of Gettysburg, and overheard Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address.
• Abstergo Entertainment supervisor Melanie Lemay had a great-great-grandfather who was known to have come into contact with Lincoln a number of times as a Union soldier during the Civil War.