As I read through the letters, the question that kept coming back to me was ‘what else was he doing at this time?’. I started with the earliest letter, the 1839 letter to Eliza Browning, and dug around for other markings of that time. The much-debated ‘Suicide Soliloquy’ from the Sangamo Journal came up, as did the death of his beloved Anne Rutledge. So I did a little something with those elements in mind.
The voice of Lincoln for our generation gives a moving reading of the Gettysburg Address
This is how I believe Abe saw the Union during the Civil War -- coming apart, and only partially rec ...
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