Abraham LincolnThis volume presents nearly 250 of Lincoln's most important speeches, state papers and letters in their entirety. Here are not only the masterpieces- the Gettysburg Address, the Inaugural Addresses, the 1858 Republican State Convention Speech and the Emancipation Proclamation - but hundreds of lesser-known ones, including excerpts from the Lincoln-Douglas debates, letters to Grant, McClellan, Stanton and his wife, and various meditations, verses and fragments. |
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... March 27 , 1842 Letter to Joshua F. Speed , July 4 , 1842 A Letter from the Lost Townships , August 27 , 1842 Correspondence About the Lincoln - Shields Duel , September 17 , 1842 Memorandum of Instructions to E. H. Merryman , Lincoln's ...
... March 27 , 1842 Letter to Joshua F. Speed , July 4 , 1842 A Letter from the Lost Townships , August 27 , 1842 Correspondence About the Lincoln - Shields Duel , September 17 , 1842 Memorandum of Instructions to E. H. Merryman , Lincoln's ...
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... March 3 , 1865 Second Inaugural Address , March 4 , 1865 Letter to Thurlow Weed , March 15 , 1865 772 773 789 790 791 792 794 Address to the 140th Indiana Regiment , March 17 , 1865 794 Telegram to General U. S. Grant , April 2 , 1865 ...
... March 3 , 1865 Second Inaugural Address , March 4 , 1865 Letter to Thurlow Weed , March 15 , 1865 772 773 789 790 791 792 794 Address to the 140th Indiana Regiment , March 17 , 1865 794 Telegram to General U. S. Grant , April 2 , 1865 ...
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... MARCH 15 , 1864 Hon . Sec . of War My dear Sir Executive Mansion , Washington , March 15 , 1864 . Please see the gallant Drummer - boy , Robert H. Hendershot , whose history is briefly written on the fine drum presented him which he now ...
... MARCH 15 , 1864 Hon . Sec . of War My dear Sir Executive Mansion , Washington , March 15 , 1864 . Please see the gallant Drummer - boy , Robert H. Hendershot , whose history is briefly written on the fine drum presented him which he now ...
Contents
Speech in the United States House | 27 |
Political Announcement | 53 |
Letter to Colonel Robert Allen June 21 1836 | 59 |
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