Abraham Lincoln - Documents

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Collection provided by: Illinois State Library

The Illinois State Library has a large collection of materials relating to the life, political career, and assassination of Abraham Lincoln. In addition to biographies of Lincoln this collection includes contemporary accounts of the assassination and the trial of the conspirators; descriptions of Lincoln’s funeral and the Lincoln National Monument; the restoration of New Salem; and Lincoln in Springfield.

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Lincoln stories, told by him in the Military Office in the War Department during the Civil War		Abraham Lincoln, legislator, orator, president. Never a prohibitionist

Raising the stars and stripes over the Lincoln homestead, Springfield, Illinois. October 16, 1889		Abraham Lincoln's "House divided" address, delivered in Springfield, before the Illinois State Republican Convention,...

The Lincoln Collection of the Illinois State Historical Library		Recollections of the Lincoln-Douglas debate, Alton, Illinois, October 15, 1858, and of the funeral of Abraham Lincoln,...

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