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Identifier: abrahamlincolnba02newy (find matches)
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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cavalcade ever invadedthe Indiana timber. Besides his wife and twochildren, his earthly possessions were of theslightest, for the backs of two borrowedhorses sufficed for the load. Insufficient bed-ding and clothing, a few pans and kettles,were their sole movable wealth. They reliedon Lincolns kit of tools for their furniture,and on his rifle for their food. At Poseysthey hired a wagon and literally hewed apath through the wilderness to their newhabitation, near Little Pigeon Creek, a mileand a half east of Gentryville, in a rich andfertile forest country. partridges; in trying to coon across Knob Creekon a log, Lincoln fell in, and Gollaher fished himout with a sycamore branch — a service to the Repub-lic, the value of which it fatigues the imagination tocompute. t This daughter of Thomas Lincoln is sometimescalled Nancy and sometimes Sarah. She seems tohave borne the former name during her mothers life-time, and to have taken her stepmothers name afterMr. Lincolns second marriage.
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Vol. XXXIIL—3. i8 LIXCOLN AS PIONEER. Thomas Lincoln, with the assistance of hiswife and children, built a temporary shelterof the sort called in the frontier language a half-faced camp ; merely a shed of poles,which defended the inmates on three sidesfrom the foul weather, but left them open toits inclemency in front. For a whole yearhis family lived in this wretched fold, whilehe was clearing a little patch of ground forplanting corn and building a rough cabin fora permanent residence. They moved into thelatter before it was half completed; for bythis time the Sparrows had followed the Lin-colns from Kentucky, and the half-facedcamp was given up to them. But the rude material for breeches or shoes. His cabinwas like that of other pioneers. A few three-legged stools; a bedstead made of poles stuckbetween the logs in the angle of the cabin,the outside corner supported by a crotchedstick driven into the ground; the table, ahuge hewed log standing on four legs; a pot,kettle, and skill

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