The Boys Life of Abraham Lincoln1st World Publishing, 2004 - 192 páginas Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Abraham Lincoln's forefathers were pioneers - men who left their homes to open up the wilderness and make the way plain for others to follow them. For one hundred and seventy years, ever since the first American Lincoln came from England to Massachusetts in 1638, they had been moving slowly westward as new settlements were made in the forest. They faced solitude, privation, and all the dangers and hardships that beset men who take up their homes where only beasts and wild men have had homes before; but they continued to press steadily forward, though they lost fortune and sometimes even life itself, in their westward progress. Back in Pennsylvania and New Jersey some of the Lincolns had been men of wealth and influence. In Kentucky, where the future President was born on February 12, 1809, his parents lived in deep poverty. |
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LAWYER LINCOLN | 33 |
CONGRESSMAN LINCOLN | 47 |
THE NEW PRESIDENT | 75 |
LINCOLN AND THE WAR | 89 |
UNSUCCESSFUL GENERALS | 102 |
THE MAN WHO WAS PRESIDENT | 127 |
THE TURNING POINT OF THE WAR | 142 |
THE CONQUEROR OF A GREAT | 157 |
THE FOURTEENTH OF APRIL | 174 |
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