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Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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eat @ ?, g_,. mand on assumpsit, containing sundry lg36 Jan g Cash lent IOOOO items more or less typical of the crude « May & June Breaking 10 acres and primitive society of that early day, Qf prajry 20.00 and so illustrative of commercial values then current on the frontier that it cannot $264.00 well be omitted. With the exception of To money lent to enter land one item entered by Stuart, it is all in afterwards entered in the name Lincolns hand: of your brother 50.00 284 THE CENTURY MAGAZINE What next followed before the final en-counter we do not know, for the record issilent. The cases were now at issue, but, forsome reason, the term of court was sufferedto adjourn without conclusive action. Thenext term found the combatants still apartand seemingly reluctant to measure arms.Meanwhile the peacemaker had been atwork, for on the morning of March 17,1837, the parties, by their attorneys, cameinto court with a report of the settlementof all pending litigation, and asked that the
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LINCOLNS BOOKCASE The bookcase is preserved in the Keyes Lincoln MemorialCollection, Chicago cases be dismissed. The record shows thatthis was promptly done. In the assumpsitcase judgment by agreement was enteredagainst the plaintiff for costs; in the re-plevin case, against the defendant; and inthe trespass case that item was equallydivided between the two. The judge signedthe record, and this was the end of Abra-ham Lincolns first lawsuit. Mr. Lincoln always divided his life asa lawyer into two epochs, one precedingand the other following his single termin Congress. His real legal career dates from March, 1849, when, believing him-self politically dead, he returned to thelaw and began the struggle in dead ear-nest. His business was largely confinedto the circuit, a mode of practice quiteunknown to the modern generation oflawyers. The now historic Eighth Cir-cuit, over which he began his travels,contained fourteen counties. When thecourts opened in Christian, Menard, orLogan, countie

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