President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at the Ford's Theatre in Washington. He is remembered for his efforts to preserve the union during the Civil War and is considered to be a martyr to this cause. The Lincoln Memorial lies at one end of Memorial Bridge and has a clear view of the National Mall, stretching past the Washington Monument to the Capitol Building on Capitol Hill. The Memorial is a Greek style temple, with a column for each of the 32 states in the Union (at the time of construction), which houses a 19 foot tall marble statue of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States. Around the interior walls are inscriptions taken from some of Lincolns most prominent speeches.