Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life

Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life
ISBN-10
1465519262
ISBN-13
9781465519269
Series
Abraham Lincoln
Language
English
Published
1928
Publisher
Library of Alexandria
Authors
William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik

Description

He brought to my attention the accounts in the Bible of the patriarch Abraham's marriage to Sarah, and used that ... the other was the difficulty with James Shields, or, as he expressed it in a letter to Speed, the "duel with Shields.

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