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Pictures and Illustrations.
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Abraham Lincoln (Steel Plate)
A. Lincoln (1863)
G. Washington (1796)
Daniel Boone, the Kentucky Pioneer
Mordecai Lincoln ("Uncle Mord")
The March through the Wilderness -- Removal of the Lincoln Family from Kentucky to Indiana in 1816
Lincoln's Home in Boyhood
Dennis Hanks in His Younger Days
A Memorable Scene -- Funeral of Lincoln's Mother
Sarah Lincoln, the President's Step-mother
The Trip to New Orleans -- Young Lincoln as a "Bow-hand"
The Removal to Illinois, as Commonly Described -- Abe as Ox-river
Thomas Lincoln's Ledger
The Country Store
Scene in the Black Hawk War -- Capt. Lincoln Protecting an Indian Major John T. Stuart
Squire Godbey's Surprise -- "Studying Law, Abe? Good God Almighty!"
Scenes About New Salem, Illinois: Ruins of Salem Hotel, Lincoln's Boarding House; Sangamon Falls; Grocery Sold by W. G. Greene to A. Lincoln
Lincoln at the Age of Fifty
Joshua F. Speed
Hon. Stephen T. Logan, Lincoln's Law-partner, 1841-43
Lincoln Resoring the Young Birds to Their Nest -- An Incident of "Circuit-riding" in Illinois
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln
The Lincoln Homestead at Springfield
Hon. William H. Herndon, Lincoln's Law-partner after 1843
One of Lincoln's Practical Jokes -- "Well, Judge, This is the First Time I Ever Got th
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CONTENTS:
1. Introdution: "Where Did Ruckus That Tap water Come From?"
2. "An Devoted Farewell"
3. The Best stencil the Bargain"
4. "A Letter from a Young Lady"
5. "An Ungovernable Mob"
6. "They Should Lose That They are Foreigners"
7. "So Good a President"
8. "This Immense Number of People"
9. "A Daguerrean Artist"
10. "Smitten by description Charms"
11. "The Solemn Spectacle"
Epilogue
Appendix
Bibliography
Introduction
Saturday Farewell, February 16, 1861:
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ABBREVIATIONS AND SHORT TITLES EMPLOYED IN NOTES
AL | Abraham Lincoln |
ALPLC | Available at Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division (Washington, D.C.: American Memory Project, 2000), http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/alhtml/ alhome.html, accessed 2002. |
ALPLM | Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, Illinois |
ALQ | Abraham Lincoln Quarterly |
Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln | Jean H. Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1987). |
Bates, Diary | The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, ed. Howard K. Beale (Washington, D.C: Government Printing Office, 1933). |
Beveridge, Abraham Lincoln | Albert J. Beveridge, Abraham Lincoln 1809–1858, 2 vols. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928). |
Browning, Diary | The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. 20, ed. Theodore C. Pease and James G. Randall (Springfield: Illinois State Historical Library, 1925). |
Chase, Diaries | Inside Lincoln s Cabinet: The Civil War Diaries of Salmon P. Chase, ed. David Donald (New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1954). |
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