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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... River Life - His First Trip to New Orleans as a Flatboatman - Death of His Mother - His Father's Second Marriage -- Recollec- tions of an Early Settler - Close of an Eventful Period in Young Lincoln's History ........... CHAPTER III ...
... River Life - His First Trip to New Orleans as a Flatboatman - Death of His Mother - His Father's Second Marriage -- Recollec- tions of an Early Settler - Close of an Eventful Period in Young Lincoln's History ........... CHAPTER III ...
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... river in the north - west of North Carolina , at just about the same date as the removal of the Lincolns to Virginia . Some years later , Boone , in his hunting excursions , had passed over and admired large tracts of the wilderness ...
... river in the north - west of North Carolina , at just about the same date as the removal of the Lincolns to Virginia . Some years later , Boone , in his hunting excursions , had passed over and admired large tracts of the wilderness ...
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... river , running south 200 poles , then up the river for quantity , 11th December , 1782 . " * Yancey's land , as appears from the same book , was on the north side of the " main " Licking Creek , as then designated . The emigrant had ...
... river , running south 200 poles , then up the river for quantity , 11th December , 1782 . " * Yancey's land , as appears from the same book , was on the north side of the " main " Licking Creek , as then designated . The emigrant had ...
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... River Life . - His First Trip to New Orleans as a Flatboatman . - Death of His Mother . - His Father's Second Marriage . - Recollections of an Early Settler . - Close of an Eventful Period in Young Lincoln's History . EARLY in the ...
... River Life . - His First Trip to New Orleans as a Flatboatman . - Death of His Mother . - His Father's Second Marriage . - Recollections of an Early Settler . - Close of an Eventful Period in Young Lincoln's History . EARLY in the ...
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... river , that the capital was removed far eastward to Corydon , in 1813 , as a central location . This place , the capital of Harrison county , is about twenty - five miles west from Louisville , and more than a hundred south of the ...
... river , that the capital was removed far eastward to Corydon , in 1813 , as a central location . This place , the capital of Harrison county , is about twenty - five miles west from Louisville , and more than a hundred south of the ...
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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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