Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Excerpted from The Irving library, vol. 7, no. 949. Includes debate with Stephen Douglas (June 17, 1858), speech at Independence Hall (Feb. 21, 1861), First Inaugural Address (Mar. 4, 1861), Emancipation Proclamation (Jan. 1, 1863), Gettysburg...
"An address delivered before the Springfield Washingtonian Temperance Society at the Second Presbyterian Church on the twenty-second day of February, 1842, by Abraham Lincoln."
A weekly publication containing maps, entertainment, road report, directions to places directly associated with Abraham Lincoln marked with bronze tablets, lists of where to dine, what to see, railroads, civic organizations and clubs, bus lines,...
A weekly publication containing maps, entertainment, road report, directions to places directly associated with Abraham Lincoln marked with bronze tablets, lists of where to dine, what to see, railroads, civic organizations and clubs, bus lines,...
Correspondence details the 1865 wartime experiences of James Mead, who joined the army in 1862 and served in both the Iowa Infantry Volunteers and the U.S. Colored Volunteer Infantry.
John Paisley was born in Ohio in 1831 In the Civil War, he served in the Ohio Volunteer Infantry and the Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and he was with General Sherman on his march to the sea. In later life he lived in Iowa, Washington, D.C., and...
Papers describing the war experiences of Palmer, who was from Washington County, Iowa and fought with the 8th Iowa Infantry and later the 25th Iowa Infantry. He was severely wounded in the Battle of Shiloh but recovered and was promoted to captain...