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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Page 398
... hand , mechanically , as if to shake hands , when I told him I had come at his bidding . It was several minutes before he was roused enough to say that he ' had had a hard day . ' ' In one news letter the third year of the war Noah ...
... hand , mechanically , as if to shake hands , when I told him I had come at his bidding . It was several minutes before he was roused enough to say that he ' had had a hard day . ' ' In one news letter the third year of the war Noah ...
Page 411
... hand to hand , but more than half having already fallen , our line was too weak to rout the enemy . Meade rode up white - faced to hear it was a repulse and cried , " Thank God ! " Lee commented : " They deserved success as far as it ...
... hand to hand , but more than half having already fallen , our line was too weak to rout the enemy . Meade rode up white - faced to hear it was a repulse and cried , " Thank God ! " Lee commented : " They deserved success as far as it ...
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... hand on the President's head , smoothed his thick and disorderly hair with motherly fin- gers . He signed an order giving her the next of her boys , stood up , put the priceless paper in her hand as he choked out the one word , " There ...
... hand on the President's head , smoothed his thick and disorderly hair with motherly fin- gers . He signed an order giving her the next of her boys , stood up , put the priceless paper in her hand as he choked out the one word , " There ...
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Wilderness Beginnings | 3 |
New Salem Days | 22 |
The Young Legislator | 40 |
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