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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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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 skillet, and a few tin and pewterdishes, were all the furniture. The boy Abra-ham climbed at night to his bed of leaves inthe loft, by a ladder of wooden pins driveninto the logs. This life has been vaunted by poets andromancers as a happy and healthful one. EvenDennis Hanks, speaking of his youthful days
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HOUSE NEAR BEECHLAND, KENTlCKV, IN WHICH THOMAS LINCOLN AND NANCY HANKS WERE MARRIED JUNE I2TH, ifi (NOW OCCUPIED BY H. F. REED.) cabin seemed so spacious and comfortableafter the squalor of the camp, that ThomasLincoln did no further work on it for a longtime. He left it for a year or two withoutdoors, or windows, or floor. The battle forexistence allowed him no time for superfluitieslike these. He raised enough corn to supportlife; the dense forest around him abounded inevery form of feathered game; a little wayfrom his cabin an open glade was full of deer-licks, and an hour or two of idle waiting wasgenerally rewarded by a shot at a fine deer,which would furnish meat for a week, and when his only home was the half-faced camp,says, I tell you, Billy, I enjoyed myself bet-ter then than I ever have since. But we maydistrust the reminiscences of old settlers, whosee their youth through a rosy mist of mem-ory. The life was neither enjoyable norwholesome. The rank woods were full of ma-l

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