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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... mile and a half from Hodgenville , the county - seat , and seven miles from Elizabethtown , laid off several years previously , and the county- seat of Hardin county . He had one sister , two years his senior , who grew up to womanhood ...
... mile and a half from Hodgenville , the county - seat , and seven miles from Elizabethtown , laid off several years previously , and the county- seat of Hardin county . He had one sister , two years his senior , who grew up to womanhood ...
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... miles below Louisville , by the river , and sixty above Evansville . In a direct line across the country from their former residence , the distance is , perhaps , hardly one hundred miles . The place at which Mr. Lincoln settled , at ...
... miles below Louisville , by the river , and sixty above Evansville . In a direct line across the country from their former residence , the distance is , perhaps , hardly one hundred miles . The place at which Mr. Lincoln settled , at ...
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... miles west from Louisville , and more than a hundred south of the present metropolis of the State . But one county intervened between Harrison and Perry , and Gen- tryville is hardly forty miles , in a direct line , from Corydon . This ...
... miles west from Louisville , and more than a hundred south of the present metropolis of the State . But one county intervened between Harrison and Perry , and Gen- tryville is hardly forty miles , in a direct line , from Corydon . This ...
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... miles from that place , and presently the North Fork of the Sangamon , over which you pass , a mile from the town . This stream flows westwardly , uniting with the South Fork , near Jamestown , ten miles from Springfield . Following ...
... miles from that place , and presently the North Fork of the Sangamon , over which you pass , a mile from the town . This stream flows westwardly , uniting with the South Fork , near Jamestown , ten miles from Springfield . Following ...
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... miles below Springfield , in Menard county - a place of more relative consequence then than now - two miles from Petersburg , the county - seat . He had found young Lincoln a person of such sort that he was anxious to secure his ...
... miles below Springfield , in Menard county - a place of more relative consequence then than now - two miles from Petersburg , the county - seat . He had found young Lincoln a person of such sort that he was anxious to secure his ...
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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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