Project Gutenberg 2012-05-05 Public domain in the USA. 198 Lamon, Ward Hill 1828 1893 Lamon, Ward H. Teillard, Dorothy Lamon Lamon, Dorothy 11009937 Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, 1847-1865 E-text prepared by Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://archive.org/details/americana) "Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, 1847-1865" by Ward Hill Lamon is a historical account written in the early 20th century. This work offers a close examination of the life and presidency of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on personal anecdotes and insights from Lamon's long friendship with Lincoln, who was his law partner before becoming the President of the United States. The book provides a unique perspective on the man behind the legend, exploring his character, humor, and the complexities of his professional relationships. The opening of this volume establishes Lamon's intentions and motivations for writing these recollections, emphasizing the importance of documenting Lincoln's inner life for posterity. Lamon shares his early encounters with Lincoln, illustrating the warmth of their friendship through anecdotes of their time together both personally and in their legal profession. The narrative captures the essence of Lincoln's humility, kindness, and principled nature, indicating that Lamon seeks to present a more intimate view of Lincoln beyond the formal biographies, revealing the many sides of an iconic figure during a tumultuous period in American history. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/39630/39630-h/images/frontcover.jpg en Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 E456 Text Browsing: Biographies Browsing: History - American 661748 661499 2024-09-16T15:17:53.064156 2023-09-17T09:39:24.924968 text/html text/html 654350 2012-05-05T11:21:39 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 1435040 2012-05-31T17:29:17 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 1485627 2024-09-16T15:18:03.916566 application/epub+zip 1491124 2024-09-16T15:17:55.034146 application/epub+zip 313278 2024-09-16T15:17:54.045127 application/epub+zip 1670370 2024-09-16T15:18:10.153518 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1633139 2024-09-16T15:18:02.622602 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 459771 2022-09-18T07:21:42.600349 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 589921 589711 2024-09-16T15:17:51.516173 2023-09-17T09:39:23.528977 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 589493 2012-05-05T11:15:56 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 219690 2012-05-05T11:15:56 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 589506 2012-05-05T11:15:56 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 219668 2012-05-05T11:15:57 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20245 2024-09-16T15:18:10.311521 application/rdf+xml 13400 2024-09-16T15:17:54.177110 image/jpeg 2040 2024-09-16T15:17:54.111138 image/jpeg 1435880 2024-09-16T15:17:53.192130 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog