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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... tion in June - Mr . Lincoln Named as the First and Only Choice of the Republi- cans for Senator - His Great Speech Before the Convention at Springfield - Doug- las and Lincoln at Chicago - Speeches at Bloomington and Springfield ...
... tion in June - Mr . Lincoln Named as the First and Only Choice of the Republi- cans for Senator - His Great Speech Before the Convention at Springfield - Doug- las and Lincoln at Chicago - Speeches at Bloomington and Springfield ...
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... tion of the President . - His Speech at the National Hotel on Negro Soldiers in the Rebel Armies . - He Visits Gen. Grant's Headquarters . - The Military Situa- tion . - Conference with his Chief Generals . - Movement of the Forces ...
... tion of the President . - His Speech at the National Hotel on Negro Soldiers in the Rebel Armies . - He Visits Gen. Grant's Headquarters . - The Military Situa- tion . - Conference with his Chief Generals . - Movement of the Forces ...
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... tion , the amount would hardly exceed one year . The rest he has accomplished for himself in his own way . As a youth he read with avidity such instructive works as he could obtain , and in winter evenings , by the mere light of the ...
... tion , the amount would hardly exceed one year . The rest he has accomplished for himself in his own way . As a youth he read with avidity such instructive works as he could obtain , and in winter evenings , by the mere light of the ...
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... tion . - Four Great States Founded in the Lifetime of Mr. Lincoln's Father . - North and South Meeting in Ohio , Indiana and Illinois.- Sentiments of Southern Emigrants . - The First Emigrations . - A Coincidence of Dates . - Mordecai ...
... tion . - Four Great States Founded in the Lifetime of Mr. Lincoln's Father . - North and South Meeting in Ohio , Indiana and Illinois.- Sentiments of Southern Emigrants . - The First Emigrations . - A Coincidence of Dates . - Mordecai ...
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... tion which the captaincy of a company of volunteers had given him , as the expressed preference of a hundred or two of asso- ciates for him above all others , as a leader , showed that , however distrustful as yet of his own powers , he ...
... tion which the captaincy of a company of volunteers had given him , as the expressed preference of a hundred or two of asso- ciates for him above all others , as a leader , showed that , however distrustful as yet of his own powers , he ...
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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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