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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name. The note from Lincolnand over to the clerks office in the court- read : house, where he wrote a few lines on asheet of paper, and, inclosing it in an en-velop, directed me to report with it toJudge Logan, another member of the ex-amining committee, at Springfield. The Greencastle, Indiana. My dear Judge: The bearer of this is a youny man who thinks he can be a lawyer. Examine him, if you want to. I have done so, and am satisfied. He s a good deal smarter than he looks to be. Yours, Lincoln. (BEGUN IN THE NOVEMBER NUMBER ABRAHAM LINCOLN : A HISTORY * BY rOHN G. NICOLAY AND JOHN HAY, PRIVATE SECRETARIES TO THE PRESIDENT. LINCOLN IN SPRINGFIELD. MR. LINCOLN had made thus far very littie money — nothing more, in fact, than abare subsistence of the most modest character.But he had made some warm friends, and thismeant very much among the early Illinoisi-ans. He liad become intimately acquainted,at Yandalia, with William Butler, who wasgreatly interested in the removal of the capi-
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WILLIAM BUTLER. (FKOM A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ABOUT 1850,POSSESSION OF HIS DAUGHTER, MISS SALOME BUTLER.) tal to Springfield, and who urged the younglegislator to take up his residence at the newseat of government. Lincoln readily fell inwith this suggestion, and accompanied hisfriend home when the Legislature adjourned,sharing the lodging of Joshua F. Speed, ayoung Kentucky merchant, and taking hismeals at the house of Mr. Butler for severalyears. In this way began Mr. Lincolns residencein Springfield, where he was to remain untilcalled to one of the highest of destinies in- trusted to men, and wheie his ashes were torest forever in monumental marble. It wouldhave seemed a dreary village to any one ac-customed to the world, but in a letter writtenabout this time, Lincoln speaks of it as a placewhere there was a good deal of flourishingabout in carriages—a town of some preten-sions to elegance. It had a population of fif-teen hundred. The county contained nearlyeighteen thousand souls, o

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