The life of Abraham Lincoln - drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, (14780057492)

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Title: The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc.
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Lincoln History Society
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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took the other to be Indians, and such an exciting race Inever saw, until they got sight of my company; then theycame to a sudden halt, and after looking at Us a few mo-ments, wheeled their horses and gave up the chase. My twomen did not know but that they were Indians until theycame up with us and shouted Indians! They had thrownaway their wallets and guns, and used their ramrods aswhips. The few houses on the road that usually accommodatedthe travel were all standing, but vacant, as we went. Onour return we found them burned by the Indians. On myreturn to the Illinois River I reported to General Atkinson,saying that, from all we could learn, the Indians were aim-ing to escape by going north, with the intention of crossingthe Mississippi river above Galena. The new troops hadjust arrived and were being mustered into service. Mycompany had only been organized for twenty days, andas the time had now expired, the men were mustered out.All but myself again volunteered for the third time.
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86 LIFE OF LINCOLN It was the middle of June when Captain lies and his com-pany returned to Dixons Ferry from their Indian hunt andwere mustered out. On June 20 Lincoln was mustered inagain, by Major Anderson, as a member of an independentcompany under Captain Jacob M. Early. His arms werevalued this time at only fifteen dollars, his horse and equip-ments at eighty-five dollars. A week after re-enlistment Lincolns company movednorthward with the army. It was time they moved, forBlack Hawk was overrunning the country, and scatteringdeath wherever he went. The settlers were wild with fear,and most of the settlements were abandoned. At a suddensound, at the merest rumor, men, women, and children fled.I well remember these troublesome times, writes oneIllinois woman. We often left our bread dough unbakedto rush to the Indian fort near by. When Mr. John Bry-ant, a brother of William Cullen Bryant, visited the colonyin Princeton in 1832, he found it nearly broken up on accountof the war. Ev