• Inside the Lincoln Sitting Room

    Lincoln Home

    National Historic Site Illinois

1858 Autobiographical Statement for Dictionary of Congress

Born, February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky.
Education defective.
Profession, a lawyer.
Have been a captain of volunteers in Black Hawk war.
Postmaster at a very small office.
Four times a member of the Illinois legislature, and was a member of the lower house of Congress.

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Carpenter's Portrain entitled:

Lincoln issued the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862, five days after the battle of Antietam.  He visited the battlefield near Sharpsburg, Maryland on October 1-4, 1862.  Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Illinois