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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... four , the orders are he shall be fired upon . I count four , St. Michael's bells chime out and I begin to hope . At half - past four the heavy booming of a cannon . I sprang out of bed , and on my knees prostrate I prayed as I never ...
... four , the orders are he shall be fired upon . I count four , St. Michael's bells chime out and I begin to hope . At half - past four the heavy booming of a cannon . I sprang out of bed , and on my knees prostrate I prayed as I never ...
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... four different armies , weld them into a unit for action . In a four months ' campaign , at times outnumbered two to one , he had stopped McClellan and earned a name as the savior of Richmond and the Confederacy . To a doubting inquirer ...
... four different armies , weld them into a unit for action . In a four months ' campaign , at times outnumbered two to one , he had stopped McClellan and earned a name as the savior of Richmond and the Confederacy . To a doubting inquirer ...
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... four departments of the Susquehanna , the Middle , West Virginia , and Washington , under one head . " He had made this proposal before and the War Department had rejected it . Now he was urging it again . And again he was naming ...
... four departments of the Susquehanna , the Middle , West Virginia , and Washington , under one head . " He had made this proposal before and the War Department had rejected it . Now he was urging it again . And again he was naming ...
Contents
Wilderness Beginnings | 3 |
New Salem Days | 22 |
The Young Legislator | 40 |
Copyright | |
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