Our American Holidays, Lincoln's Birthday, edited

About this eBook

Editor

Schauffler, Robert Haven, 1879-1964

Title

Lincoln's Birthday : a comprehensive view of Lincoln as given in the most noteworthy essays, orations and poems, in fiction and in Lincoln's own writings

Credits

Produced by Bruce Albrecht, Leonard Johnson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

E456: History: America: Civil War period (1861-1865)

Subject

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Poetry

Category

Text

eBook-No.

21267

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21267

Release Date

May 2, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Our American Holidays LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY — Our American Holidays LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.NOTE
5. 5.INTRODUCTION
6. 6.I A BIRDSEYE VIEW OF LINCOLN — ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY — A BRIEF SUMMARY OF LINCOLN'S LIFE
7. 7.II EARLY LIFE — LINCOLN'S EDUCATION [1] — ABE LINCOLN'S HONESTY — THE BOY THAT HUNGERED FOR KNOWLEDGE — ABRAHAM LINCOLN [2] — YOUNG LINCOLN'S KINDNESS OF HEART — A VOICE FROM THE WILDERNESS — CHOOSING "ABE" LINCOLN CAPTAIN
8. 8.III MATURITY — LINCOLN'S MARRIAGE—A PEEP INTO LINCOLN'S SOCIAL LIFE — HOW LINCOLN AND JUDGE B—— SWAPPED HORSES — ABRAHAM LINCOLN AS A MAN OF LETTERS [3] — LINCOLN'S PRESENCE OF BODY — HOW LINCOLN BECAME A NATIONAL FIGURE — LINCOLN'S LOVE FOR THE LITTLE ONES — HOW LINCOLN TOOK HIS ALTITUDE
9. 9.IV IN THE WHITE HOUSE — HOW LINCOLN WAS ABUSED — SONNET IN 1862 — LINCOLN THE PRESIDENT — ABRAHAM LINCOLN — THE PROCLAMATION [6] — THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION — THE EMANCIPATION GROUP [7] — ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S CHRISTMAS GIFT [8]
10. 10.V DEATH OF LINCOLN — O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! [9] — ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S DEATH—A DESCRIPTION OF THE SCENE AT FORD'S THEATRE [10] — HUSH'D BE THE CAMPS TO-DAY [11] — TO THE MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN — CROWN HIS BLOODSTAINED PILLOW — THE DEATH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN [12] — OUR SUN HATH GONE DOWN [13] — TOLLING [14] — ABRAHAM LINCOLN [15] — EFFECT OF THE DEATH OF LINCOLN — HYMN [16] — ABRAHAM LINCOLN
11. 11.VI TRIBUTES — THE MARTYR CHIEF [17] — ABRAHAM LINCOLN [18] — WASHINGTON AND LINCOLN — LINCOLN — LINCOLN'S GRAVE — TRIBUTES TO LINCOLN — ABRAHAM LINCOLN — TRIBUTES — ABRAHAM LINCOLN [19] — ON THE LIFE-MASK OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN [20] — TRIBUTES — LINCOLN — ABRAHAM LINCOLN — AN HORATIAN ODE [21] — SOME FOREIGN TRIBUTES TO LINCOLN — From 'THE GETTYSBURG ODE' — TRIBUTES — LINCOLN — ABRAHAM LINCOLN — LINCOLN [23] — WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE DOORYARD BLOOM'D [24]
12. 12.VII THE WHOLE MAN — LINCOLN, THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE [25] — LIFE AND CHARACTER OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN — ABRAHAM LINCOLN — GREATNESS OF HIS SIMPLICITY — HORACE GREELEY'S ESTIMATE OF LINCOLN — LINCOLN — THE RELIGIOUS CHARACTER OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN [26] — TO THE SPIRIT OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN [27] — LINCOLN AS A TYPICAL AMERICAN — LINCOLN AS CAVALIER AND PURITAN — LINCOLN, THE TENDER-HEARTED — THE CHARACTER OF LINCOLN — "WITH CHARITY FOR ALL" — LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY — FEBRUARY TWELFTH — TWO FEBRUARY BIRTHDAYS
13. 13.VIII LINCOLN'S PLACE IN HISTORY — THE THREE GREATEST AMERICANS — HIS CHOICE AND HIS DESTINY — FROM "REMINISCENCES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN" [28] — LINCOLN [29] — THE GRANDEST FIGURE [30] — ABRAHAM LINCOLN — LINCOLN THE IMMORTAL — THE CRISIS AND THE HERO — LINCOLN [31] — MAJESTIC IN HIS INDIVIDUALITY
14. 14.IX LINCOLN'S YARNS AND SAYINGS — THE QUESTION OF LEGS — A FAMOUS STORY—HOW LINCOLN WAS PRESENTED WITH A KNIFE! — "FOOLING" THE PEOPLE — LINCOLN'S NAME FOR "WEEPING WATER" — LINCOLN'S CONFAB WITH A COMMITTEE ON GRANT'S WHISKY — MILD REBUKE TO A DOCTOR
15. 15.X FROM LINCOLN'S SPEECHES AND WRITINGS — LINCOLN'S LIFE AS WRITTEN BY HIMSELF — THE INJUSTICE OF SLAVERY — SPEECH AT COOPER INSTITUTE, FEBRUARY 27, 1860 — FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS, MARCH 4, 1861 — LETTER TO HORACE GREELEY — EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION — THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION — ADDRESS ON THE BATTLEFIELD OF GETTYSBURG — REMARKS TO NEGROES IN THE STREETS OF RICHMOND — SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS, MARCH 4, 1865 — Transcriber's Notes:

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