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William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik, Chapter 5. (search)
Chapter 5. The Black Hawk war. Lincoln elected captain. under arrest. Protecting the Indian. recollections of a comrade. Lincoln re-enlists as a private. return to New Salem. candidate for the Legislature. the handbill. first political speech. the canvass. defeat. partnership in the store with Berry. the trade with William Greene. failure of the business. law studies. Pettifogging. stories and poetry. Referee in rural sports. deputy surveyor under John Calhoun. studying with Mentor Graham. postmaster at New Salem. the incident with Chandler. feats of strength. second race for the Legislature. election. The departure of the Talisman for deeper waters, the downfall of Denton Offut's varied enterprises and his disappearance from New Salem, followed in rapid succession, and before the spring of 1832 had merged into summer Lincoln found himself a piece of floating driftwood again. Where he might have lodged had not the Black Hawk war intervened can o
William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik, Chapter 19. (search)
ds in Illinois urging him to come out and help set things right in Egypt, and that he would go, or stay in Washington, Just where I thought he could do the most good. I told him to do as he chose, but that he could probably do best in Illinois. Upon that he shook hands with me and hurried away to catch the next train. I never saw him again. --Henry C. Whitney, Ms. letter, November 13, 1866. Mr. Lincoln's military knowledge had been acquired in the famous campaign against the Indian Chief Black Hawk on the frontier in 1832, the thrilling details of which he had already given the country in a Congressional stump-speech; and to this store of experience he had made little if any addition. It was therefore generally conceded that in grappling with the realities of the problem which now confronted both himself and the country he would be wholly dependent on those who had made the profession of arms a life-work. Those who held such hastily conceived notions of Mr. Lincoln were evident