Holland's Life of Abraham LincolnSoon after the assassination of President Lincoln in April 1865, newspaper editor Josiah Gilbert Holland traveled to Illinois to talk with people who had known Abraham Lincoln "back when". In 1866 Holland published the earliest full-scale life of the fallen leader. A great popular success, Holland's biography introduced American readers who were hungry for personal information about Lincoln's early life to some of the most famous and enduring Lincoln stories. From Holland the reader learned about Lincoln making restitution for a ruined book, the railsplitter earning his first silver dollar, the millhorse's kick to his head, the wrestling match with Jack Armstrong. Holland relayed homey stories about the young Illinois legislator and lawyer and poignant ones about the president during the dark days of the Civil War. Holland was one of the earliest biographers of Lincoln to insist that Lincoln had always opposed slavery and had planned consistently for emancipation. Most debatable, from the viewpoint of some later historians, was Holland's demonstration that Lincoln was "eminently a Christian President". To understand the sixteenth president and the making of his public image, it is necessary to begin with Holland's Life of Abraham Lincoln. |
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Page 65
... living . When the time for the assembling of the legislature approached , Lincoln dropped his law books , shouldered his pack , and , on foot , trudged to Vandalia , then the capital of the state , about a hundred miles , to make his ...
... living . When the time for the assembling of the legislature approached , Lincoln dropped his law books , shouldered his pack , and , on foot , trudged to Vandalia , then the capital of the state , about a hundred miles , to make his ...
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... living and dead , who struggled here , have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract . The world will little note , nor long remember , what we say here ; but it can never forget what they did here . It is for us , the living ...
... living and dead , who struggled here , have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract . The world will little note , nor long remember , what we say here ; but it can never forget what they did here . It is for us , the living ...
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... living sons , Robert and Thomas , standing by the tomb , were objects of an affectionate interest only equaled by the deep sorrow for their own and their country's loss . Rev. A. Hale of Springfield opened the religious exercises with ...
... living sons , Robert and Thomas , standing by the tomb , were objects of an affectionate interest only equaled by the deep sorrow for their own and their country's loss . Rev. A. Hale of Springfield opened the religious exercises with ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 17 |
Lincolns early IndustryHis SchoolsSimplicity of Border LifeDeath of his Mother | 27 |
CHAPTER III | 37 |
Copyright | |
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