This work is a collection of several well-authenticated facts, reminiscences, and illustrations that have never before appeared concerning the history of Abraham Lincoln. J. T. Hobson wrote this work to update some points of Lincoln's history, which later and more accurate information has revealed. Lincoln's history has been of interest to people of every generation, and this well-written work will help understand every aspect of Lincoln's life in a simple way. Contents include: The Emigration to Illinois Lincoln Visits the Old Indiana Home Lincoln and the Armstrong Case Lincoln's Temperance Principles Lincoln as a Prohibitionist Lincoln and the Slavery Question The Lincoln and Douglas Debates Lincoln Nominated and Elected President President Lincoln and the Civil War Death of President Lincoln Unpublished Official Documents Celebration of the Centennial Anniversary of Lincoln's Birth

"The Lincoln Enigma: Unraveling History's Hero" takes readers on a captivating journey through the life of one of America's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln. Authored by Asif Ahmed Srabon, this book delves deep into the enigmatic character of Lincoln, exploring his humble beginnings, his meteoric rise in politics, and his pivotal role in the tumultuous times of the Civil War.

THE BLUEGRASS REGION OF KENTUCKY was the only part of the slaveholding South that Abraham Lincoln knew intimately. Even before the young Illinois lawyer had married a daughter of one of Lexington’s leading statesmen, he had taken Robert Todd’s close friend, Henry Clay, as his political idol. Mary Todd, who had grown to young womanhood in Lexington, widened Lincoln’s circle of acquaintances in the Bluegrass to include such diverse personalities as Judge George Robertson, Lincoln’s counsel, who supported emancipation in the abstract but indignantly demanded that the President protect his slave property; the fiery Cassius M. Clay, who urged Lincoln to proclaim immediate emancipation and who raised a motley battalion in Washington, D.C., to defend the Capital; Dr. Robert J. Breckinridge, the doughty Presbyterian minister who refused to ask special treatment for the members of his family in the Confederacy; and the Doctor’s nephew, Vice-President John C. Breckinridge, who rejected a demand that he use his position to thwart Lincoln’s election but immediately took up arms against him. With the gifted pen that has won praise from so many students of Lincoln and the Civil War, William H. Townsend here describes the fabulous Bluegrass region which had so large a part in shaping Lincoln’s views about emancipation and secession. Lexington, heart of the Bluegrass, had early been called the “Athens of the West,” and the grace and culture of its pleasure-loving aristocracy could hardly have failed to impress any thinking man. Here Lincoln saw the genteel side of slavery—the trusted mammies whose word was law, the valets whose talent for mixing mint juleps was famous—but he also saw the public whipping post, slave jails, and slave auctions, and the disregard for the humanity of the Negro.

“Covers Lincoln’s background in Kentucky and his lifelong association with the state of his birth . . . entertaining . . . well researched.” —Louisville Courier-Journal Young Abraham Lincoln and his family joined the migration over the Ohio River, but it was Kentucky—the state of his birth—that shaped his personality and continued to affect his life. His wife was from the commonwealth, as were each of the other women with whom he had romantic relationships. Henry Clay was his political idol; Joshua Speed of Farmington, near Louisville, was his lifelong best friend; and all three of his law partners were Kentuckians. During the Civil War, Lincoln is reputed to have said, “I hope to have God on my side, but I must have Kentucky.” He recognized Kentucky’s importance as the bellwether of the four loyal slave states and accepted the commonwealth’s illegal neutrality until Unionists secured firm control of the state government. In this book, Lowell Harrison emphasizes the particular skill and delicacy with which Lincoln handled the problems of a loyal slave state populated by a large number of Confederate sympathizers. It was not until decades later that Kentuckians fully recognized Lincoln’s greatness and paid homage to their native son. “An outstanding work.” —James A. Ramage, author of Gray Ghost: The Life of Col. John Singleton Mosby