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 Concise History of the WarMoore, Wilstach & Baldwin, 1865 - 510 pages |
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... miles away , emigration had now begun . These recruits were from that class of hardy frontiersmen most inured to the kind of toils they were to encounter anew in the Kentucky forests . They went forward , fearless of the dangers to be ...
... miles away , emigration had now begun . These recruits were from that class of hardy frontiersmen most inured to the kind of toils they were to encounter anew in the Kentucky forests . They went forward , fearless of the dangers to be ...
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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 south - west of Gentryville , became the capital of Spencer county , and thenceforward a point of in- terest to the new settlers . It is situated on a high bluff of the Ohio river , and receives its name from " Lady Washington's ...
... miles south - west of Gentryville , became the capital of Spencer county , and thenceforward a point of in- terest to the new settlers . It is situated on a high bluff of the Ohio river , and receives its name from " Lady Washington's ...
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