INTRODUCTORY
Immediately after Lincoln’s re-election to the
Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response
to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening
of November 10, 1864, he...
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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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Complete Project Gutenberg Abraham Lincoln Writings
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln