An old engraving of the log cabin, the home of Abraham Lincoln from the age of seven (1816) until he was 12, Gentryville, southern Indiana, USA in the early 1800s. It is from an American history book of 1895. Indiana was a ‘free’ (non-slaveholding) territory and the family settled in a forested area. Abraham Lincoln (1809 –1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the Union through the American Civil War.
An old engraving of the log cabin, the home of Abraham Lincoln from the age of seven (1816) until he was 12, Gentryville, southern Indiana, USA in the early 1800s. It is from an American history book of 1895. Indiana was a ‘free’ (non-slaveholding) territory and the family settled in a forested area. Abraham Lincoln (1809 –1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the Union through the American Civil War to defend the constitutional union and succeeded in abolishing slavery, bolstering the federal government, and modernising the economy.
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Location: Gentryville, Indiana, USA
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