The Life and Times of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States: Including His Speeches, Messages, Inaugurals, Proclamations, Etc., Etc |
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... issues an Emancipation Proclamation - It is vetoed by the President The Trent affair , and its results ... 271 CHAPTER XI . THE EMANCIPATION ACT . The public mind is gradually prepared for Emancipation - The Presi- dent's Message ...
... issues an Emancipation Proclamation - It is vetoed by the President The Trent affair , and its results ... 271 CHAPTER XI . THE EMANCIPATION ACT . The public mind is gradually prepared for Emancipation - The Presi- dent's Message ...
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... issues an Order for a general advance of the national forces - General McClellan's hesitancy and delay - Re- iterated orders to move - Letter from the President - The advance on Yorktown - Battle of Williamsburg - More delay , more ...
... issues an Order for a general advance of the national forces - General McClellan's hesitancy and delay - Re- iterated orders to move - Letter from the President - The advance on Yorktown - Battle of Williamsburg - More delay , more ...
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... issue of a general engagement . On the part of the American commanders , the cam- paign was carried forward with all the celerity possible ; but they were in a strange country , in which , for lack of correct information , they were ...
... issue of a general engagement . On the part of the American commanders , the cam- paign was carried forward with all the celerity possible ; but they were in a strange country , in which , for lack of correct information , they were ...
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... issue before the people ; and , although a defeat , may well be re- garded as a remarkable and auspicious beginning of his public career . At this period of his life , as ever after , he seems to have been influenced by no spirit of ...
... issue before the people ; and , although a defeat , may well be re- garded as a remarkable and auspicious beginning of his public career . At this period of his life , as ever after , he seems to have been influenced by no spirit of ...
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... issues were left to contend for of the celebrated system of the great Kentuckian . Mr. Lincoln was now desirous of studying law , but his limited education and lack of pecuniary means pre- vented him from immediately carrying out his ...
... issues were left to contend for of the celebrated system of the great Kentuckian . Mr. Lincoln was now desirous of studying law , but his limited education and lack of pecuniary means pre- vented him from immediately carrying out his ...
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