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Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1887 (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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different, were helpful toeach other afterwards in many ways, andLincoln made ample amends for the libertyhis hands had taken with Jacks throat, bysaving, in a memorable trial, his sons neckfrom the halter. This incident, trivial and vulgar as it mayseem, was of great importance in Lincolnslife. His behavior in this ignoble scuffle didthe work of years for him, in giving him theposition he required in the community wherehis lot was cast. He became from that mo-ment, in a certain sense, a personage, with aname and standing of his own. The verdict ofClarys Grove was unanimous that he was the cleverest fellow that had ever broke intothe settlement. He did not have to be con-stantly scuffling to guard his self-respect, andat the same time he gained the good-will ofthe better sort by his evident peaceablenessand integrity. He made on the whole a satisfactory clerkfor Mr. Offutt, though hisdownright honesty musthave seemed occasionallyas eccentric in that positionas afterwards it did to his
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throw him, and expected an easy victory.But he soon found himself in different hands ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 253 associates at the bar. Dr. Holland has pre-served one or two incidents of this kind,which have their value. Once, after he hadsold a woman a little bill of goods andreceived the money, he found on lookingover the account again that she had given himsix and a quarter cents too much. The moneyburned in his hands until he locked the shopand started on a walk of several miles in thenight to make restitution before he slept. Onanother occasion, after weighing and deliver-ing a pound of tea, he found a small weighton the scales. He immediately weighed outthe quantity of tea of which he had innocentlydefrauded his customer and went in searchof her, his sensitive conscience not permittingany delay. To show that the young merchantwas not too good for this world, the samewriter gives an incident of his shop-keepingexperience of a different character. A ruralbully having made himself especia

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