Charles Carleton Coffin – Life of Abraham Lincoln – 1893

Titel: Abraham Lincoln -IllustratedAuteur: Charles Carleton CoffinUitgever: New York, Harper, 1893, eerste uitgaveBand: gedecoreerde linnen band met vergulde letters.Aantal bladzijden: 542, 29 HoofdstukkenAantal gravures: 160Conditie: Goed+. Schoon, rookvrij exemplaar in nette staat.Critics: wikipedia: 'Charles Carleton Coffin (July 26, 1823 – March 2, 1896) was an American journalist, war correspondent, author and politician. Coffin was one of the best-known newspaper correspondents of the American Civil War. He has been called "the Ernie Pyle of his era," and a biographer, W.E. Griffis, referred to him as "a soldier of the pen and knight of the truth."'Abraham Lincoln (‘father of multitudes’, ‘father of the nation’, 'Honest Abe') was born on February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, in a log cabin in Kentucky, a slave state. Abraham was tall, strong, and athletic, and became skilled at using an ax. He was an active wrestler during his youth and became county wrestling champion at the age of 21.In 1831, Abraham’s family moved to a new home and Abraham struck out on his own. Part of his living became the transport of goods and hogs by flatboat to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he first witnessed slavery.n 1832, Abraham declared... lees verder bij Catawiki