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To Frederick F. Hanks Springfield, Ill., March , My Dear Sir: Your note, addressed to the P. M of this city, dated the th inst, is handed me to answer. e Lincoln family as far as we can trace them is a Southern family.
McNeil fell deeply in love with the school-girl — she was then only seventeen — and paid her the usual unremitting attentions young lovers of that age had done before him and are still doing today. His partner in the store, Samuel Hill, ...
With a view to throwing a light on some attributes of Lincoln's character heretofore obscure, and thus contributing to the great fund of history which goes down to posterity, these volumes are given to the world.
William H. Herndon's Life of Lincoln, written to counteract the worshipful view of Abraham Lincoln held by the public, caused enormous controversy when first published in 1889.
For twenty-five years after the president's death William Herndon, his law partner, conducted interviews with and solicited letters from dozens of persons who knew Lincoln personally.
Belford, Clarke & Company had no standing in the publishing world—no agents, no list of authors, no outlets. The firm was not equipped to distribute Herndon's book. By September 1889 its debts had mounted so enormously that it was ...
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About the Book Books about the American Civil War, discuss the secession of the Confederate States from the Union in 1861, and the subsequent devastating war, that resulted in the deaths of 620,000 Americans by 1865.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.