Life of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, and Speeches in and Out of Congress; Also a General View of His Policy as President of the United States; with His Messages, Proclamations, Letters, Etc., and a History of His Eventful Administration, and of the Scenes Attendant Upon His Tragic and Lamented DemiseLommis National Library Association, 1888 - 842 pages Written in 1864 by a political contemporary, this is a work of nineteenth-century American biographic literature. It contains Lincoln's most masterful speeches and writings, along with a contemporary history of the Civil War. |
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... appear conspicuously in both these family groups . One tradition indeed affirms that the Pennsylvania branch was transplanted from Hingham , Massa- chusetts , and was derived from a common stock with General Benjamin Lincoln , of ...
... appear conspicuously in both these family groups . One tradition indeed affirms that the Pennsylvania branch was transplanted from Hingham , Massa- chusetts , and was derived from a common stock with General Benjamin Lincoln , of ...
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... appears from the same book , was on the north side of the " main " Licking Creek , as then designated . The emigrant had made but a mere beginning in his new pio- neer labors , when , while at work one day , at a distance from his cabin ...
... appears from the same book , was on the north side of the " main " Licking Creek , as then designated . The emigrant had made but a mere beginning in his new pio- neer labors , when , while at work one day , at a distance from his cabin ...
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... appear that the parents of Miss Hanks ever removed to Kentucky , though others of the family did so . Of the history of her ancestry , we have no definite particulars . Her position in life appears to have been not dissimilar to that of ...
... appear that the parents of Miss Hanks ever removed to Kentucky , though others of the family did so . Of the history of her ancestry , we have no definite particulars . Her position in life appears to have been not dissimilar to that of ...
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... work of future times and other hands . This period of young Lincoln's life was terminated by another removal of his father , as will appear in the next chapter CHAPTER III . FIRST YEARS IN ILLINOIS . - 1830-32 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 29.
... work of future times and other hands . This period of young Lincoln's life was terminated by another removal of his father , as will appear in the next chapter CHAPTER III . FIRST YEARS IN ILLINOIS . - 1830-32 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 29.
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... Appear ance in the Legislature . - Banks and Internal Improvements . — Whis , Measures Democratically Botched . - First Meeting of Lincoln witl . Douglas . - The Latter Seeks an Office of the Legislature and Gets it.- Mr. Lincoln Re ...
... Appear ance in the Legislature . - Banks and Internal Improvements . — Whis , Measures Democratically Botched . - First Meeting of Lincoln witl . Douglas . - The Latter Seeks an Office of the Legislature and Gets it.- Mr. Lincoln Re ...
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LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN Joseph H. (Joseph Hartwell) 18 Barrett,Making of America Project No preview available - 2016 |
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