• Inside the Lincoln Sitting Room

    Lincoln Home

    National Historic Site Illinois

The Battles: Lincoln Responds

| 2nd Manassas |
August 28-30, 1862

| Antietam |
September 16-18, 1862

| Gettysburg |
July 1-3, 1863

| Vicksburg |
Siege: May 18-July 4, 1863

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Photo of Model of Lincoln's Patent

Abraham Lincoln is the only president to hold a patent.  His patent was for a system of chambers designed to refloat boats that had run aground.  He received Patent No. 6469 on May 22, 1849. Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Illinois