Without seeing the picture, one would guess that he is splitting rails. Logs were sawed off to the right length and then split with an axe, length-wise to make rails for fences. One log could be split into several rails.
Killing Abraham Lincoln
doing his moms hair
They were doing the Reconstruction planning. When Abraham Lincoln got assassinated, Andrew Johnson took over.
watching a play
Abraham Lincoln was a Civil War person.
Abraham Lincoln thought that slavery was pulling the country apart.
Abraham Lincoln was sitting in Ford's theater with his wife and friends. They were watching a comedy play called My American Cousin.
President Lincoln and the first lady were watching a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC when he was shot.
He accused Democrats of trying to spread slavery across the nation.
The Lincoln and Douglas debates in 1858, were extensively covered by newspapers in both the North and the South. Northerners followed the debates and by doing so, brought to national attention the views of Abraham Lincoln. Abolitionists in the North were impressed with Abraham Lincoln's views on slavery.
President Abraham Lincoln was at a opera house watching a show.
The name "Rail Splitter" originated in the Illinois State Republican Convention at Decatur, GA on May 9 1860, when two supporters, future governor (of Illinois) Richard J. Oglesby and one John Hanks, who had lived with the Lincolns, marched into the convention hall with two fence rails to which a sign was attached, "Abraham Lincoln, The Rail Candidate for President in 1860."Lincoln's previous jobs were soldier, postmaster, surveyor, tavern keeper, and rail splitter before he pursued law and politics, and the nickname referred to this modest background. The name caught on at the national convention at Chicago and spread quickly, becoming a campaign slogan.He was a candidate for the "common man" because of his background doing what would now be considered "blue collar". His formal education consisted of 18 months, and yet he eventually ran for office and practiced law.