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Identifier: abrahamlincolnba01newy (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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he familiar facesof their former inmates must greet him if heagain entered their doors; Chain Bridge, onthe road to Amesbury, which was regardedalmost as an eighth wonder of the world whenit was built, and was pictured in the geogra-phies of that day, as the Brooklyn Bridge maybe in the latest school-books; the suburb ofBelleville, where he went to singing-school incompany with • lots of boys and pretty girls,and first learned Wicklovv and other good oldhymns; and last, but not least, the Heraldoffice on State street, in which he served hislong seven years apprenticeship as a printer.He seldom visited the town without climbingits stairs, and he liked to tell how it was owing •As Mr. Garrison, on his visit to England in 1846, must have furnished Mary llowitt with these facts inregard to his mother, they are reproduced here (Uom the Peoples Journal of September 12, 1846) as moreaothentic than any later recollections could have been. WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISONS ORIGIX AND EARLY LIFE. 593
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BIRTHPLACE OF WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, AND GRAMMAR SCHOOL, NEU (URYPORT.(from PHOTOGRAPHS BY S. C. REED AND H. P. MACINTOSH. DRAWN BY WILLIAM I.ATHROP.) to his fondness for Newburyport, and his in-supportable homesickness on two or threeoccasions when he was sent elsewhere to seeka livelihood, that he ever came to learn theprinting business, and to master the weaponwhich enabled him to carry on his thirty yearswarfare against American slavery. He was less than three years old when hismother found herself left, by the desertion ofher husband, with three young children tosupport,— the oldest a boy of seven and theyoungest an infant daughter but a few weeksold. Up to that time she had enjoyed suchexuberant health that she was wont to say that only a cannon-ball could kill Fanny Garri-son ; but though she resolutely set herselfto the task of maintaining herself and her littleones, the blow of this desertion was one fromwhich she never recovered, and it shadowedthe remaining years of her

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