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Abraham Lincoln

Chapter 15: Transcriber's Notes:
By William Eleroy Curtis
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The work presents a series of illustrated sketches that trace the man’s rise from humble origins to national leadership, focusing on his legal career, persuasive oratory, and political emergence. It analyzes his household life and relationships, his management of a wartime cabinet and military commanders, the move toward emancipation, diplomatic dealings, and his moral and religious outlook, and it includes a concise chronological calendar and portraits to contextualize events.

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Transcriber's Notes:

Simple typographical errors were corrected.

Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.

"fugitive slave law" and "fugitive-slave law" both appear in the original book; regularized to "fugitive-slave law" in this eBook.

"proslavery" and "pro-slavery" both occur in the original book; unchanged here.

Letter facing page 168: in handwritten date "October 3, 1861", "3" (rather than "5") is based on examination of other samples of Lincoln's handwriting.

Page 289: "Ben: Perley Poore" did abbreviate his first name with a colon. His name also appears without a colon on page 98.