The Abraham Lincoln Memorial is on the National Mall in Washington, DC; it is located south of the White House, west of the Washington Monument, and close to the banks of the Potomac River. It honors Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), the sixteenth President of the United States and one of the most famous leaders in our Nation’s history. Lincoln was President during the Nation’s Civil War (1861-1865), and he issued the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, which proclaimed that slaves within rebel states would be free. He is also known for the Gettysburg Address, delivered in 1863, which commemorated the fallen soldiers in the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

The memorial was built between 1914 and 1922, and the theme of the building represents the Union. The 36 columns on the outside walls stand for the 36 states in the Union at the time of Lincoln’s death. The names of the 48 states in the Union when the memorial was completed are carved along the outside of the memorial; a plaque honoring Alaska and Hawaii is in the approach plaza.

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