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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... face in a hotel room in Quincy , David R. Locke wrote : " I never saw a more thoughtful face . I never saw a more dignified face . I never saw so sad a face . " Nor could Locke forget that Lincoln had his boots off and explained , " I ...
... face in a hotel room in Quincy , David R. Locke wrote : " I never saw a more thoughtful face . I never saw a more dignified face . I never saw so sad a face . " Nor could Locke forget that Lincoln had his boots off and explained , " I ...
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... face , is unfathom- able . " Congressman Henry Laurens Dawes of Massachusetts said early in the administration : " There is something in his face which I cannot understand . He is great . We can safely trust the Union to him . " And ...
... face , is unfathom- able . " Congressman Henry Laurens Dawes of Massachusetts said early in the administration : " There is something in his face which I cannot understand . He is great . We can safely trust the Union to him . " And ...
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... face so bruised , swollen , discolored , his voice so changed and hoarse , that he seemed a man she had never before seen . At first he wandered in delirium , but on the third day was again in his right mind . The gaslights in the house ...
... face so bruised , swollen , discolored , his voice so changed and hoarse , that he seemed a man she had never before seen . At first he wandered in delirium , but on the third day was again in his right mind . The gaslights in the house ...
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Wilderness Beginnings | 3 |
New Salem Days | 22 |
The Young Legislator | 40 |
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