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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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Lincolnhimself, who, however, gave it up on accountof the natural unwillingness of his wife to re-move to a country so wild and so remote. This was all as it should be. The best placefor him was Illinois, and he went about hiswork there until his time should come. SIX YEARS OF LAW PRACTICE. In that briefest of all autobiographies, whichMr. Lincoln wrote for Jesse Fell upon threepages of note-paper, he sketched the period atwhich we have arrived in these words : From1849 to 1854, both inclusive, I practiced lawmore assiduously than ever before. . . . I waslosing interest in politics, when the repeal ofthe Missouri Compromise aroused me again.His service in Congress had made him moregenerally known than formerly, and had in-creased his practical value as a member ofany law firm. He was offered a partnershipon favorable terms by a lawyer in good prac-tice in Chicago; but he declined it on the * Among others John T. Stuart, who is our authorityfor this statement. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 537 ^M,
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ROBERT C. WINTHROP. (AFTER A PHOTOGRAPH BY BRADY.) ground that his health would not endure theclose confinement necessary in a city office.He went back to Springfield, and resumed atonce his practice there and in the EighthJudicial Circuit, where his occupations andhis associates were the most congenial thathe could anywhere find. For five years hedevoted himself to his work with more energyand more success than ever before. It was at this time that he gave a notableproof of his unusual powers of mental disci-pline. His wider knowledge of men and things,acquired by contact with the great world, hadshown him a certain lack in himself of thepower of close and sustained reasoning. Toremedy this defect, he applied himself, afterhis return from Congress, to such works uponlogic and mathematics as he fancied wouldVol. XXXIII.—69. be serviceable. Devoting himself withdogged energy to the task in hand, hesoon learned by heart six books of thepropositions of Euclid, and he retainedthrough li

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