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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... called on him and said his action would bring civil war and dissolve the Union , he said , " If you men are taken in rebellion against the Union , I will hang you with less re- luctance than I hanged spies and deserters in Mexico ...
... called on him and said his action would bring civil war and dissolve the Union , he said , " If you men are taken in rebellion against the Union , I will hang you with less re- luctance than I hanged spies and deserters in Mexico ...
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... called him to Gettysburg . Provost Marshal General Fry as a War Department escort came to the White House , but the President was late in getting into the carriage for the drive to the station . They had no time to lose , Fry remarked ...
... called him to Gettysburg . Provost Marshal General Fry as a War Department escort came to the White House , but the President was late in getting into the carriage for the drive to the station . They had no time to lose , Fry remarked ...
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... called the American Aesop , " said the New York Herald , No- vember 21 , 1863 , a week later taking the liberty of inventing a comic insidious anecdote as from the President's mouth . To run down all the suspicions , insinuations ...
... called the American Aesop , " said the New York Herald , No- vember 21 , 1863 , a week later taking the liberty of inventing a comic insidious anecdote as from the President's mouth . To run down all the suspicions , insinuations ...
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Wilderness Beginnings | 3 |
New Salem Days | 22 |
The Young Legislator | 40 |
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