Lincoln’s First Public Speech—­From an Address to the People of Sangamon
County, March 9, 1832
Letter to Col. Robert Allen, June 21, 1836
From a Letter Published in the Sangamon ...
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Sixteenth president of the United States and president during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was immortalized by his Emancipation Proclamation, his Gettysburg Address, and two outstanding ...
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As a young man, Lincoln had taken flatboat trips down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. While traveling, he saw other boats become unavoidably grounded on sandbars that were created by the river's shif...
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Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln