Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War YearsReader's Digest Association, 1970 - 640 pages |
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Page 157
... brought 50,000 people to Springfield . He greeted them ; the " fight for this cause " would go on " though I be dead and gone . ” He ended : “ You will kindly let me be silent . " Follet , Foster & Company announced a biog- raphy of ...
... brought 50,000 people to Springfield . He greeted them ; the " fight for this cause " would go on " though I be dead and gone . ” He ended : “ You will kindly let me be silent . " Follet , Foster & Company announced a biog- raphy of ...
Page 174
... brought laughter . " It is not my nature , when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyr- anny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens ; but rather would I do all in ...
... brought laughter . " It is not my nature , when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyr- anny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens ; but rather would I do all in ...
Page 424
... brought him word that the long trenches in front of Cold Harbor were empty . Grant was gone . A long march , and the wide James River crossed , brought Grant's army to the Petersburg defenses of Richmond . In four days of assaults ...
... brought him word that the long trenches in front of Cold Harbor were empty . Grant was gone . A long march , and the wide James River crossed , brought Grant's army to the Petersburg defenses of Richmond . In four days of assaults ...
Contents
Wilderness Beginnings | 17 |
New Salem Days | 33 |
The Young Legislator | 49 |
Copyright | |
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