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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... troops , he sat alone in this room , and a feeling came over him as if he were utterly deserted and helpless . He thought any moderately strong body of secessionist troops might come over the ' long bridge ' across the Potomac , and ...
... troops , he sat alone in this room , and a feeling came over him as if he were utterly deserted and helpless . He thought any moderately strong body of secessionist troops might come over the ' long bridge ' across the Potomac , and ...
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... troops - cornhuskers , teamsters , rail splitters , shopmen , factory hands , college students , from Iowa , Nebraska , Illinois , Indiana , Ohio , Missouri , many of them not yet old enough to vote . The gunboats stopped at Fort Henry ...
... troops - cornhuskers , teamsters , rail splitters , shopmen , factory hands , college students , from Iowa , Nebraska , Illinois , Indiana , Ohio , Missouri , many of them not yet old enough to vote . The gunboats stopped at Fort Henry ...
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... troops . Lincoln wired : " I have not a single soldier but whom is being disposed by the Military for the best protection of all . By latest ac- counts the enemy is moving on Washington . They can not fly to either place . Let us be ...
... troops . Lincoln wired : " I have not a single soldier but whom is being disposed by the Military for the best protection of all . By latest ac- counts the enemy is moving on Washington . They can not fly to either place . Let us be ...
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The Young Legislator | 40 |
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