Identifier: abrahamlincolnba02newy (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century 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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This certificate, or marriage list, written by Jesse Head, was lost sight of for manythe efforts of W. F. Booker, Esq., present Clerk of Washington County, Kenti was lost sight of for many years, and has only recently been discovered throughWashington County, Kentucky. This fac-simile is the first ever published. i6 LINCOLN AS PIONEER. enough for his growing budget, removed toa little farm which he had bought on the easyterms then prevalent in Kentucky, on the BigSouth Fork of Nolin Creek, in what was thenHardin and is now La Rue County, three milesfrom Hodgensville. The ground had nothingattractive about it but its cheapness. It washardly more grateful than the rocky hill-slopes of New England. It required full asearnest and intelligent industry to persuadea living out of those barren hillocks and weedyhollows covered with stunted and scrubbyunderbrush, as it would amid the rocks andsands of the northern coast. Thomas Lincoln settled down in this dis-mal solitude to a deeper poverty

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