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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... election a handbill , written but not signed by Lincoln , was given out over the town . It recited a series of alleged facts about the ten acres claimed by Mrs. Anderson and an assignment of judgment by Anderson to Adams being freshly ...
... election a handbill , written but not signed by Lincoln , was given out over the town . It recited a series of alleged facts about the ten acres claimed by Mrs. Anderson and an assignment of judgment by Anderson to Adams being freshly ...
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... election the Democrats elected only four of the nine Illinois Congressmen , and to the legislature only 41 regular Democrats against 59 anti - Nebraska members of differing shades . Lincoln wrote the names of all members in alphabetical ...
... election the Democrats elected only four of the nine Illinois Congressmen , and to the legislature only 41 regular Democrats against 59 anti - Nebraska members of differing shades . Lincoln wrote the names of all members in alphabetical ...
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... election was held the proslavery party lost . A congressional committee went to Kansas , heard hundreds of witnesses and its report ran 1,206 pages . Only a long story , reciting election frauds , disputes , bickerings , burnings of ...
... election was held the proslavery party lost . A congressional committee went to Kansas , heard hundreds of witnesses and its report ran 1,206 pages . Only a long story , reciting election frauds , disputes , bickerings , burnings of ...
Contents
Wilderness Beginnings | 3 |
New Salem Days | 22 |
The Young Legislator | 40 |
Copyright | |
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