" This new edition restores the original text, includes two chapters added in the revised (1892) edition, and traces the story of how this landmark biography got written.
On the 19th of January, 1841, John J. Hardin announced his illness in the House. Four days afterward he wrote the ... Among those present was Thomas C. Brown, one of the judges of the Supreme Court. He was in truth an “oldtimer,” and ...
The True Story of a Great Life William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik. R. to W. H. Herndon, 79- 80; W. L. Wilson to Herndon, 97; George W. Harrison to Herndon, 98-100; Joseph S. Wilson to Herndon, 101; Mary S. Vineyard (see Owens) to ...
McNeil fell deeply in love with the school-girl — she was then only seventeen — and paid her the usual unremitting attentions young lovers of that age had done before him and are still doing today. His partner in the store, Samuel Hill, ...
Lincoln, Swett, McWilliams, of Bloomington, Voorhees, of Covington, Ind., O. L. Davis, Drake, Ward Lamon, Lawrence, Beckwith, and O. F. Harmon, of Danville, Whiteman, of Iroquois County, and Chandler, of Williamsport, Ind., ...
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Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life . . . the History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln
About the Book Books about the American Civil War, discuss the secession of the Confederate States from the Union in 1861, and the subsequent devastating war, that resulted in the deaths of 620,000 Americans by 1865.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
First published in 1889 across three small volumes, this replica edition collects the complete work into one book that will surprise and delight even those students of history who believe they know everything there is to know about Lincoln.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.