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All week on the OUPblog we will be celebrating the Lincoln Bicentennial.

James crichton vc biography of abraham lincoln

James crichton vc biography of abraham lincoln

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Be sure to check in daily for original posts from Allen C. Guelzo, author of Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction, Jennifer Weber, author of Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln’s Opponents in the North, and Craig L.

Symonds, author of Lincoln and His Admirals. To start things off we have excerpted from Abraham Lincoln by James M. McPherson. This short book is the perfect biography to kickstart our Lincoln celebrations. The excerpt below begins with Lincoln’s birth, on February 12, 1809.

Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky, about fifty miles south of Louisville.

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His father, Thomas Lincoln, had come as a child with his family from Virginia in 1782. Thomas acquired only enough literacy to sign his name but gained modest prosperity as a carpenter and farmer on the Kentucky frontier. He married Nancy Hanks, also illiter