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   Abraham Lincoln's early life and career

   Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in a one-room log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky in a town now known as Hodgenville. Lincoln was named after his dead grandfather, who was killed in 1786, shot from ambush by an Indian while clearing a field.
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   Lincoln Trail Homestead State Memorial

   See also:Abraham Lincoln's early life and career His parents intended to return to Indiana, but settled in Coles County, Illinois, northwest of Charleston.
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   Abraham Lincoln

   Early life ... At the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on November 19, beginning with the now-iconic phrase "Four score and seven years ago...", Lincoln referred to the events of the Civil War and described the ceremony at Gettysburg as an opportunity not only to dedicate the grounds of a cemetery, but also to consecrate the living in the struggle to ensure that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth".
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   Sexuality of Abraham Lincoln

   Book Questions Abraham Lincoln's Sexuality - Discovery Channel ... Early life · Religion · Sexuality · Slavery
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   Mary Todd Lincoln

   Abraham pursued his increasingly successful career as a Springfield lawyer, and Mary supervised their growing household. ... Especially for students - An Overview of Mary Todd Lincoln's Life
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   John Wilkes Booth

   Background and early life ... Theatrical career
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   Lincoln's Lost Speech

   Many who saw the speech considered it the greatest speech of Lincoln's life. ... Lincoln's Lost Speech: The Pivot Of His Career, New York: 1967, Hawthorn Books, Inc.
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   Battle of Kellogg's Grove

   The second battle is known for playing a role in Abraham Lincoln's short career in the Illinois militia. ... The Lincoln quote appeared both in William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Wiek's Life of Lincoln and Carl Sandburg's Lincoln biography, Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years.
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   George B. McClellan

   Early life and career ... Lincoln's Cabinet met on October 18 and agreed to accept Scott's resignation for "reasons of health."
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    William H. Seward

    On the night of Lincoln's assassination, he survived an attempt on his life in the conspirators' effort to decapitate the Union government. ... Early life and career

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Abraham Lincoln's early life and career,
• Lincoln Trail Homestead State Memorial,
• Abraham Lincoln,
• Sexuality of Abraham Lincoln,
• Mary Todd Lincoln,
• John Wilkes Booth,
• Lincoln's Lost Speech,
• Battle of Kellogg's Grove,
• George B. McClellan,
• William H. Seward