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Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
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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the Supreme Court ofthe United States, and by Judge Drummond,the United States District Judge for Illinois.Judge Davis says: I enjoyed for over twenty years the personal friend-ship of Mr. Lincoln. We were admitted to the barabout the same time and traveled for many years whatis known in Illinois as the Eighth Judicial Circuit. In184S, when I first went on the bench, the circuit em-braced fourteen counties, and Mr. Lincoln went withthe court to every county. Railroads were not then inuse, and our mode of travel was either on horsebackor in buggies. This simple life he loved, preferring it to the prac-tice of the law in a city, where, although the remunera-tion would be greater, the opportunity would be lessfor mixing with the great body of the people, who loved • A few of the lawyers who practiced with Lincoln, Shields, I.ogan, Stuart, Baker, Treat, Bledsoe, Brown-and have held the highest official positions, are Douglas, ing, Hardin, Trumbull, McClernand, etc. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 539
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ENGRAVED BY T. JOHNSON MARTIN VAN BUREN, PRESIDENT FROM 1837-41. him, and whom he loved. Mr. Lincoln was transferredfrom the bar of that circuit to the office of the Presi-dent of the United States, having been without officialposition since he left Congress in 1849. In all theelements that constitute the great lawyer he had fewequals. He was great both at nisi prius and beforean appellate tribunal. He seized the strong points ofa cause, and presented them with clearness and greatcompactness. His mind was logical and direct, andhe did not indulge in extraneous discussion. General-ities and platitudes had no charms for him. An unfail-ing vein of humor never deserted him; and he wasable to claim the attention of court and jury, when thecause was the most uninteresting, by the appropriate-ness of his anecdotes. His power of comparison was large, and he rarelyfailed in a legal discussion to use that mode of reason-ing The framework of his mental and moral beingwas honesty, and a wrong cau

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