Abraham Lincoln’s words and actions convinced the American people not only to persevere and save the Union, but to create at the same time a more perfect union that granted freedom and liberty for all its citizens.
In His Words: Readings from the Life of Abraham Lincoln provides readers with documentary evidence of the workings of Abe. While not designed as a documentary biography on Lincoln, the publication does include letters, speeches, fragmentary notes, and other writings in chronological order spanning from his childhood on the frontier, as a husband and father, as a successful Illinois lawyer, and ultimately as the political leader who guided the nation through the crucible of the Civil War.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Selected Events in the Life of Abraham Lincoln
PART ONE – Growing and Learning
Politics
To the People of Sangamo County, March 9,
“The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions” – Address to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, January 27,
Courtship
To Mary S. Owens, December 13,
To Mary Owens, May 7,
To Mary Owens, August 16,
Letter to Mrs. Orville Browning, April 1,
Melancholy
To John T
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Abraham Lincoln
Who Was Abraham Lincoln?
Quick Facts
BORN: February 12,
DIED: April 15,
BIRTHPLACE: Hodgenville, Kentucky
SPOUSE: Mary Todd Lincoln (m. )
CHILDREN: Robert Todd Lincoln, Edward Baker Lincoln, William Wallace Lincoln, and Thomas “Tad” Lincoln
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Aquarius
HEIGHT: 6 fe
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