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Title: From pioneer home to the White House : life of Abraham Lincoln: boyhood, youth, manhood, assassination, death
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Thayer, William Makepeace, 1820-1898 Bancroft, George, 1800-1891
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : Henry Bill Pub. 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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''war lasted. Before the third term of his enlistment
had expired, the battle of Bad Axe was fought, which
put an end to the war.
He returned home. " Having lost his horse, near
where the town of Janesville, Wisconsin, now stands,
he went down Rock River to Dixon in a canoe.
Thence he crossed the country on foot to Peoria,
where he again took a canoe to a point on the Illinois
River, within forty miles of home. The latter dis-
tance he accomplished on foot."
Several incidents transpired during his connection
with the army, which are so expressive of certain
elements of his character, that we record them here.
One day an old Indian found his way into camp, pro-
fessing to be friendly to the whites, and casting him-
self upon the mercy of Lincoln's soldiers.
" We came to fight Indians," shouted one of the
" boys," " and we'll give you cold lead instead of
mercy.'
Shoot him ! shoot him !" cried several voices.
" A spy ! a spy !" shouted others.
The demonstration terrified the Indian, and, in his
distress, he flung down a crumpled paper that he had
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INTERCEDING FOR AN INDIAN IN THE BLACK-HAWK WAR.

ON THE WAR-PATH. 237
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been holding in his hand, and begged them to read it.
Captain Lincoln took it up, and found that it was a
certificate of character and safe-conduct from General
Cass, endorsing the Indian as a faithful man who had
done good for him.
" A forged document!" was the cry raised at once.
"The old savage can't run it on us like that,"
cried Bill Clary, raising his gun in a threatening
manner.
" Kill him ! show him no quarter!" cried another of
the "Clary Grove Boys," several of whom had made
considerable trouble for their captain by their unruly
conduct.
The " boys " were bound to kill the red-skin, and
were actually rushing upon him when Captain Lincoln
sprang before him, confronting the assailants, and
commanding them to desist.
" You shall not shoot the Indian," he cried. Gen-
eral Cass's order must be respected."
" We WILL shoot him," yelled a Clary Grove ruffian.
" Not unless you shoot me," fiercely cried Captain
Lincoln, towering up to his full height, and covering
the Indian by his bodily presence.

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