Memoirs of James Curtis Mahan . MARY ELLEN MAHAN Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant PREFATORY NOTE During the last ten years, my children haveoften requested me to write an autobiography,or personal memoirs, of my life, embracingsufficient detail to preserve the family record;and also a brief record of important events inour countrys history—such as the Civil War,and the part I had in helping to save the Union. Theres a Divinity that s
Memoirs of James Curtis Mahan . MARY ELLEN MAHAN Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant PREFATORY NOTE During the last ten years, my children haveoften requested me to write an autobiography,or personal memoirs, of my life, embracingsufficient detail to preserve the family record;and also a brief record of important events inour countrys history—such as the Civil War,and the part I had in helping to save the Union. Theres a Divinity that shapes our ends,rough hew them how we will. The fortune Iinherited in early life was not silver and gold,but something of more real worth—good health,good character and a cheerful nature, to startwith—^and later on, a faithful wife and anhonorable family. I, therefore, belong to theclass Lincoln said God must have loved be-cause He made so many of them. During three score years of married life, Ihave earned a whole
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