Prologue to Sumter: The Beginnings of the Civil War from the John Brown Raid to the Surrender of Fort Sumter, Woven Into a Continuous Narrative |
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... hands were in a fair way of being crushed . I was invited into the parlor and soon Mrs. Lin- coln entered , holding a rose - bouquet in her hand , which she presented to me after the introduction ; and in return I gave her a cabinet ...
... hands were in a fair way of being crushed . I was invited into the parlor and soon Mrs. Lin- coln entered , holding a rose - bouquet in her hand , which she presented to me after the introduction ; and in return I gave her a cabinet ...
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... hand , and he looked for a piece of pasteboard but could find none . I told him a round stick would do as well as anything . Thereupon he went to the woodshed , and I heard the saw go , and he soon returned to the dining room ...
... hand , and he looked for a piece of pasteboard but could find none . I told him a round stick would do as well as anything . Thereupon he went to the woodshed , and I heard the saw go , and he soon returned to the dining room ...
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... hands all in honor of his deceased brother , to whom he was so tenderly attached that seventeen hundred of his people clubbed to death over the cherished grave do not yet seem enough . A tithe of ... hand is certainly 198 Prologue to Sumter.
... hands all in honor of his deceased brother , to whom he was so tenderly attached that seventeen hundred of his people clubbed to death over the cherished grave do not yet seem enough . A tithe of ... hand is certainly 198 Prologue to Sumter.
Contents
Contents | 17 |
Echoes from Harpers Ferry | 29 |
The Trial of John Brown | 39 |
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