Sandburg is born in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1878, twenty years after one of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas's debates is staged in the town.
At the time of Sandburg's birth, persons who knew and served with Lincoln still live in the area, and the country is still recovering from the Civil War. Galesburg.....
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