Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War YearsThis biography is drawn from the six volume work on Lincoln and new research uncovered since the original publication. |
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... battle . The word was that the Northern Shovelry would make Southern Chivalry bite the dust . Lincoln went as usual that Sunday morning to the New York Avenue Pres- byterian Church . During the afternoon he read telegrams from the ...
... battle . The word was that the Northern Shovelry would make Southern Chivalry bite the dust . Lincoln went as usual that Sunday morning to the New York Avenue Pres- byterian Church . During the afternoon he read telegrams from the ...
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... battle McClellan wrote to his wife : " Not yet have I had a word from any one in Washington about the battle of the Antietam . . . except from the President in the following beautiful language , ' Your despatch received . God bless you ...
... battle McClellan wrote to his wife : " Not yet have I had a word from any one in Washington about the battle of the Antietam . . . except from the President in the following beautiful language , ' Your despatch received . God bless you ...
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... battle , the President had endorsed them and now wrote : " These cases occurring on the same day , brought me to reflect more attentively than I had before done , as to what is fairly due from us here , in the dispensing of patronage ...
... battle , the President had endorsed them and now wrote : " These cases occurring on the same day , brought me to reflect more attentively than I had before done , as to what is fairly due from us here , in the dispensing of patronage ...
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Wilderness Beginnings | 3 |
New Salem Days | 22 |
The Young Legislator | 40 |
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