The story-life of Lincoln; a biography composed of five hundred true stories told by Abraham Lincoln and his friends . e of Famous Letter of President Lincoln to a Boston Mother. .Full Page 585 Charles A. Dana 589 A Cartoon Posted during the Presidential Campaign of 1864 603 Long Abraham Four Years Longer—A Caricature 604 General Sherman 607 Lieutenant Tad in Uniform 611 Facsimile of Note from Lincoln Ordering a Well Pumped out for Tad 616 Miss Anna Dickinson 619 Charles Sumner 621 Jefferson Davis after the Fall of Richmond 625 Lincoln Entering the Confederate Capital 628 Leaving the Davis Man
The story-life of Lincoln; a biography composed of five hundred true stories told by Abraham Lincoln and his friends . e of Famous Letter of President Lincoln to a Boston Mother. .Full Page 585 Charles A. Dana 589 A Cartoon Posted during the Presidential Campaign of 1864 603 Long Abraham Four Years Longer—A Caricature 604 General Sherman 607 Lieutenant Tad in Uniform 611 Facsimile of Note from Lincoln Ordering a Well Pumped out for Tad 616 Miss Anna Dickinson 619 Charles Sumner 621 Jefferson Davis after the Fall of Richmond 625 Lincoln Entering the Confederate Capital 628 Leaving the Davis Mansion Full Page 630 General Jackson, 640 Etching of Lincoln in 1865 641 Fords Theater, where the Horrible Crime Was Committed 645 Facsimile of Lincolns Last Writing, April 14, 1865 647 Plan of the Proscenium Box in which Lincoln Was Shot 648 The Blood-stained Play-bill 650 Life Mask of Lincoln, by L. W. Volk, of Chicago Full Page 654 Headlines in New York Herald the Morning after the Assassination 658 Horace Greeley 659 Ralph Waldo Emerson 676 Framed Photo from a Popular Portrait of Lincoln Tailpiece 679. .- T3 a ca<u bo be S a <° S £ S S 5 . & I iiilll HI i The Story-Life of Lincoln CHAPTER I Lincolns Immediate Ancestors Abraham Lincoln, the Presidents Grandfather, the Friend ofDaniel Boone In the year 1780, Abraham Lincoln, a member of a respectableand well-to-do family in Rockingham County, Virginia, startedwestward to establish himself in the newly-explored country ofKentucky. He entered several large tracts of fertile land, andreturning to Virginia disposed of his property there, and with hiswife and five children went back to Kentucky and settled in Jeffer-son County There is little doubt that it was on account of his association with the famous Daniel Boone that AbrahamLincoln went to Kentucky. The families had for a century beenclosely allied. There were frequent intermarriages among them—both being of Quaker lineage The life of the pioneer Abraham Linc
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