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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... received of an alarming Indian invasion , on the western border of the State . In the spring of 1831 , the noted Black - Hawk , an old chief of the Sac tribe of Indians , repudiating the treaty by the terms of which they had been ...
... received of an alarming Indian invasion , on the western border of the State . In the spring of 1831 , the noted Black - Hawk , an old chief of the Sac tribe of Indians , repudiating the treaty by the terms of which they had been ...
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... received , that there was a strong force of white soldiers at Fort Armstrong , on Rock Island , he continued on to the mouth of Rock river , where , in utter recklessnes and bad faith - paying not the slightest regard to his solemn ...
... received , that there was a strong force of white soldiers at Fort Armstrong , on Rock Island , he continued on to the mouth of Rock river , where , in utter recklessnes and bad faith - paying not the slightest regard to his solemn ...
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... received by the suffrages of his fellows , and one that afforded particular satisfaction to his not unaspiring , though modest spirit , as he , long afterward , frankly admitted . Their first march was to the rendezvous appointed by Gov ...
... received by the suffrages of his fellows , and one that afforded particular satisfaction to his not unaspiring , though modest spirit , as he , long afterward , frankly admitted . Their first march was to the rendezvous appointed by Gov ...
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... received that Black- Hawk was thirty - five miles above Gen. Atkinson , on Rock river . A plan of Generals Alexander , Henry , and others , to take him by surprise , without awaiting orders , was frustrated by their troops refusing to ...
... received that Black- Hawk was thirty - five miles above Gen. Atkinson , on Rock river . A plan of Generals Alexander , Henry , and others , to take him by surprise , without awaiting orders , was frustrated by their troops refusing to ...
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... that he received so wonderful a vote in his own precinct , where he was best if not almost exclusively known , as may almost be said to THE EMIGRATION FROM KENTUCKY . have made his fortune . 48 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
... that he received so wonderful a vote in his own precinct , where he was best if not almost exclusively known , as may almost be said to THE EMIGRATION FROM KENTUCKY . have made his fortune . 48 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
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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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