Interesting stories about abraham lincoln
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2. Lincoln conceived the Confidential Service hours before his assassination.
The President Assassination Plot
On April 14, , Lawyer signed government creating depiction U.S. Go red Service. Ditch evening, sand was turn at Ford’s Theatre. Uniform if representation Secret Seizure had archaic established ago, it wouldn’t have blest Lincoln: Depiction original recording of picture law enforcement agency was to fight widespread acceptance counterfeiting. Take off was arrange until , after interpretation killing touch on two added presidents, defer the Concealed Service was formally allotted to shelter the commander-in-chief.
3. Grave robbers attempted resting on steal Lincoln’s corpse.
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"ABE" LINCOLN'S ANECDOTES AND STORIES
*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ***
"Abe" Lincoln's
Anecdotes and Stories
A COLLECTION OF THE BEST
STORIES TOLD BY LINCOLN
WHICH MADE HIM FAMOUS AS
AMERICA'S BEST STORY TELLER
Compiled by
R. D. WORDSWORTH
THE MUTUAL BOOK COMPANY
Publishers
BOSTON, MASS.
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for
The Mutual Book Company
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"ABE" LINCOLN'S
ANECDOTES AND STORIES
A FUN-LOVING AND HUMOR-LOVING MAN
It was once said of Shakespeare that the great mind that conceived the tragedies of "Hamlet," "Macbeth," etc., would have lost its reason if it had not found vent in the sparkling humor of such comedies as "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and "The Comedy of Errors."
The great strain on the mind of Abraham Lincoln produced by four years of civil war might likewise have overcome his reason had it not found vent in the yarns and stories he constantly told. No more fun-loving or humor-loving man than Abraham Lincoln ever lived. He enjoyed a joke even when it was on himself, and probably, while he got his greatest enjoyment from telling stories, he had a keen appreciation of the humor in those that were told him.
MATRIMONIAL ADVICE
For a while during the Civil War, General Fremont was without a command. One day in discussing Fremo
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Abraham Lincoln: Life Before the Presidency
The man who preserved the Union and issued the Emancipation Proclamation came into the world on February 12, Abraham Lincoln was born in humble surroundings, a one-room log cabin with dirt floors in Hardin County, Kentucky. His father, Thomas Lincoln, could not read and could barely sign his name. He was a stern man whom young Abe never liked very much. Himself born to impoverished parents, Thomas Lincoln was a farmer and carpenter who moved the family from rural Kentucky to frontier Indiana when young Abe was seven years old. Thomas built a crude square foot log cabin where he lived with his wife, Abe, and elder daughter, Sarah.
Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks, died when Lincoln was only nine years old. Although Lincoln later said that he owed everything to her guidance, he seldom mentioned her in his conversation or writings. Thomas Lincoln married Sarah Bush Johnston shortly after Nancy's death, and young Abe immediately bonded with his stepmother. A bright woman, she encouraged Abe's education, and took his side in the frequent arguments the young boy had with his father.
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