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Excerpt from The Lincoln Memorial Album-Immortelles: Original Contributions From the Hands and Hearts of Eminent Americans and Europeans, Comtemporanies With the Great Martyr LibertyFrom a boy of eight years I have labored assiduously, and with pride, in the accumulation of relics. While in the army this taste found a broad field in which to operate, and a zeal for the pleasant task increased with age. When the assassin sti uck at the life of ...

Excerpt from Raising the Stars and Stripes Over the Lincoln Homestead, Springfield, Illinois: October 16, 1889 War. Of which Gen. 0. IV. Pavev is President. On the l6th of October, 1889. It seems to me to have been a verv appropriate time for the old soldiers to raise this ¿ag over the home of their former commander-inschief. At 2 P. On the l6th, J. L. Crane, Camp No. 1, Sons of Veterans, followed by Stevenson Post, No. 30, and Men dell Post,...

Excerpt from The Centenary of the Birth of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1909: Program of Exercises in Commemoration of That Event A Century will have passed on the 12th of February, 1909, since the birth of Abraham Lincoln, and suitable arrangements ought to be made to commemorate such an important anniversary. No American in history is so close to the hearts of the American people. The observance of this Centennial should be made popular throughou...

Excerpt from The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Flight, Pursuit, Capture, and Punishment of the Conspirators The many accounts of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln that have been written make me hesitate to offer still another, but having lived for ten years under the roof that once sheltered him in Springfield, Ill., and eight years later in the house in which he died, and having met so many persons during the past thirty-six years who...

Excerpt from Poets' Lincoln: Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President Although they are chie¿y the productions of American authors, quite a number are from the pens of appreciative citizens of other countries. From the thousand of meritorious poems which have been written about Lincoln, the compiler, after serious consideration, has selected those within as appearing to be gems, although there were others which he would have been glad to i...

Excerpt from Lincoln's Campaign: Or the Political Revolution of 1860All men who have the success of the great cause at heart, and who are able to divest themselves of local feel ings and personal predilections, seem to see clearly the force of the element of which his strength consists, and to recognize in him, in an unsurpassed degree, that availa bility which will be stronger than all other considerations in determining the Chicago nominatio...

Excerpt from A Tribute to the Memory: Of John a Logan From the Home of Lincoln In the preparation of his volume it has been the purpose of the publisher to present in permanent from, the tributes of esteem, tendered to the memory of the illustrious dead. It seems especially fitting that the service General Logan gave to his country, the exalted esteem in which he was held by his grateful countrymen, and which has found so many and such heartf...

Excerpt from A Soldier's Story of the Siege of Vicksburg, 1885: From the Diary of Osborn H. Oldroyd Our commanding Officers will always be remembered as brave soldiers and devoted patriots, and they won the hearts of all the men in the ranks. In Closing this preface, I Wish to express my most cordial thanks to those who have kindly loaned their portraits to be engraved for this volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds...

Excerpt from Words of Lincoln: Including Several Hundred Opinons of His Life and Character by Eminent Persons of This and Other Lands The sun which rose on the 12th of February, 1809, lighted up a little log cabin on Nolin Creek, Hardin Co., Ky., in which Abraham Lincoln was that day ushered into the world. Although born under the humblest and most unpromising circumstances, he was of honest parentage. In this backwoods hut, surrounded by vir...

Excerpt from The Lincoln Memorial Album-ImmortellesOu the fifteenth day of April, 1880, I was standing near the monument of Abraham Lincoln, waiting for the Lincoln Guard of Honor to begin their first memorial service 011 the fifteenth anniversary of the death of Abraham Lincoln. The gathering was a small one, it being only about twenty-two minutes after seven o'clock in the morning. As I gazed on the pinnacle of the towering shaft, that marks...

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Intro. by Gen. T. M. Harris. Oldroyd was a collector of Lincolniana for forty years. His book includes accounts of Lincoln's assassination, the pursuit of Booth afterward, the subsequent trials, and the people and places Oldroyd encountered on an 80-mile

The Siege of Vicksburg is a collection of first-hand accounts of one of the most important battles of the American Civil War. Included in the book is the diary of the author, Osborn H. Oldroyd, a sergeant in the 20th Ohio Infantry, giving a thorough look at all aspects of life in the besieging army, from warfare itself to eating and entertainment. Several Confederate soldiers are also featured in the work, allowing the reader to appreciate the...