Why We Love LincolnOuting Publishing Company, 1909 - 168 pages |
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Page 38
... fight , and he was compelled to wear a wooden sword for two weeks because his company got drunk - he who afterwards commanded Grant , Sher- man and Sheridan - yet he returned to his village a hero without having shed blood , for the ...
... fight , and he was compelled to wear a wooden sword for two weeks because his company got drunk - he who afterwards commanded Grant , Sher- man and Sheridan - yet he returned to his village a hero without having shed blood , for the ...
Page 60
... fight because the tall politician had written certain anonymous letters for the Springfield Journal . Lincoln accepted and named " cavalry broadswords of the largest size . " The duelists went to the place appointed by the river , and ...
... fight because the tall politician had written certain anonymous letters for the Springfield Journal . Lincoln accepted and named " cavalry broadswords of the largest size . " The duelists went to the place appointed by the river , and ...
Page 89
... fight with their great coats on , which fight , after a long and rather harmless con- test , ended in each having fought himself out of his own coat and into that of the other . If the two leading parties of this day are really ...
... fight with their great coats on , which fight , after a long and rather harmless con- test , ended in each having fought himself out of his own coat and into that of the other . If the two leading parties of this day are really ...
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