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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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him themost agreeable of comrades. He was alwaysready with some kindly act or word for others.Once he saved the life of the town drunkard,whom he found freezing by the roadside, bycarrying him in his strong arms tothe tavern, and working over himuntil he revived. It is a curious 23 fact that this act ofcommon humanity wasregarded as somethingremarkable in theneighborhood; thegrateful sot himself al-ways said it wasmighty clever of Abeto tote me so far thatcold night. It wasalso considered an ec-centricity that he hatedand preached againstcruelty to animals.Some of his comradesremember still hisbursts of righteouswrath, when a boy,against the wantonmurder of turtles andother creatures. Hewas evidently of bet-ter and finer clay thanhis fellows, even inthose wild and igno-rant days. At home he was the life of thesingularly assorted household, which consisted,besides his parents and himself, of his sister,Mrs. Lincolns two . , . 1 Grave of Lincolns Mother. girls and boy,Dennis Hanks, the
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THOMAS LINCOLN FARM, SPENCER COUNTY, INDIANA, NEAR THE TOWN OF LINCOLN AND GENTRYVILLE.THE FIGURE OF A MAN STANDS ON THE SITE OF THE CABIN. 24 LINCOLN AS PIONEER.

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