He came under the impression that some civil authorities would probably have remained in Richmond with whom immediate measures might be taken to stop unnecessary fighting and to secure for the city and for the State a return of peaceful ...
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Lincoln, Collected Works, vol. 8, quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln. “plain unpretentious plodding man” Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis, eds., Herndon's Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln (Chicago, ...
"A magisterial enterprise."—William Safire, New York Times "No review could do complete justice to the magnificent two-volume biography that has been so well-wrought by Michael Burlingame."—Christopher Hitchens, Atlantic Monthly "The ...
This is the wonder, always, everywhere- Not that vast mutability which is event, The pits and pinnacles of change, But man's desire and valiance that range All circumstance, and come to port unspent.
Abraham Lincoln: Friend Or Foe of Freedom?
... good Republican party men said something about Lincoln for President he brushed it off with remarks that he wasn't fit or , as he had told. Drawn by Otto J. Schneider from Lincoln's hat and umbrella in Chicago Historical Society.
Volume I William H. Weik, Jesse W. Herndon. Mr. Lincoln spoke at Washingtonian Hall, ... The Free-Soil paper (Henry Wilson's) refers to the meeting, mentioning Mr. Seward, but not Mr. Lincoln. The next day Mr. Lincoln left Boston for ...
Redeemer President Allen C. Guelzo. ing the spiritual counsel of the newly installed pastor of Springfield's First Presbyterian Church , a Scotsman named James Smith . This selection was no accident . James Smith was born in Scotland in ...
WILLIAM CURTIS NOYES, GEORGE FOLSOM, JAMES KELLY, EDGAR KETCHUM, CHARLES A. PEABODY, HORACE GREELEY, FRANCIS HALL, HAMILTON FISH, ABIJAH MANN, JR., HENRY A. HURLBUT, JOHN JAY, GEORGE W. BLUNT, WILLIAM V. BRADY, HIRAM BARNEY, ...
“There is no better introduction to current thinking about Lincoln and his place in history.” —Newsday An essential book for any student of Lincoln and American history, Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind the Myths is acclaimed Lincoln ...
Lincoln and Berry had been installed in business but a short time until one Reuben Radford, the proprietor of another New Salem grocery, who, happening to incur the displeasure of the Clary's Grove boys, decided suddenly one morning, ...
Parker retreated. He might as well have been wearing kid gloves. But to be fair he was a good enough Parker, not uncaring. e sheet of paper lay there unread, and Mary went back to her thoughts. Last week on the River Queen, ...
Lincoln, Swett, McWilliams, of Bloomington, Voorhees, of Covington, Ind., O. L. Davis, Drake, Ward Lamon, Lawrence, ... Lamon would have whiskey in his office for the drinking ones, and those who indulged in petty gambling would get by ...
To clear the land for farming , Thomas taught Abraham to chop with an ax . Over time , Abraham became expert at chopping . Thomas even rented Abraham to chop for others for 25 cents a day . In 1818 , 34 - year - old Nancy Lincoln died ...
... 308 ; arrangements for Lincoln's night journey, 309 ; conference with Pinkerton, Francis- cus, and Sanford, ... Shannon, 435; Woodson's proclamation against Free State legislature, 435 ; Free State legislature dispersed by Col.
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A biography of the great Civil War president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, including illustrations of people, places, and artifacts of the times.
A fictional correspondence between President Abraham Lincoln and a twelve-year-old slave girl that discusses his decision to write the Emancipation Proclamation.
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.