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Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas, Harper’s Ferry, the election of 1860, secession – all the events leading up to the Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

First session: November 21, 2015. Last date to add: Sometime in the future.
Reading: Self-assigned. Recommendations made and welcomed. To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by reply or freepmail.

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Rev. Samuel I. Prime, D.D.* – 2-4
Contents – 3
Editorials – 4-5
The Lounger – 5-7
The Army of Occupation on Staten Island – 7-10
Weekly Market Summary/Financial and Commercial – 8
The Comet – 11
Paul Morphy, Esq. – 12-13
The Son of France – 13
Lumbering in Maine– 14-18
Conversations Across the Atlantic Cable – 18
Our Wall – 18-20
Views In and About Salt Lake City – 20-21
An Hour with a Pickpocket – 22-23
Gudgeon’s Visit to the Fishing Banks – 23-24

*"Photo by Brady." That would be Matthew Brady, who will provide much photographic documentation of the Civil War.

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Continued from September 24 (reply #22).

Allen C. Guelzo, Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America

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Continued from January 28 (reply #12).

James Lee McDonough, William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country, A Life

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Continued from September 18 (reply #7) .

Home Letters of General Sherman, edited by M.A. DeWolfe Howe, 1909

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In 1858 Lincoln and Douglas had a series of joint debates in this State, and this city was one place of meeting. Mr. Lincoln's step-mother was making her home with my father and mother at that time. Mr. Lincoln stopped at our house, and as he was going away my mother said to him: "Uncle Abe, I want a picture of you." He replied, "Well, Harriet, when I get home I will have one taken for you and send it to you." Soon after, mother received the photograph, which she still has, already framed, from Springfield, Illinois, with a letter from Mr. Lincoln, in which he said, "This is not a very good-looking picture, but it's the best that could be produced from the poor subject." He also said that he had it taken solely for my mother."

— Mr. K. N. Chapman of Charleston, Illinois, great-grandson of Sarah Bush Lincoln

List of photographs of Abraham Lincoln

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Continued from September 23 (reply #18) .

Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher

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[Continued from September 24 (reply #23) .]

September 29. The Atlantic cable speechless still. Its high priests talk of defective insulation at some point probably not less than two hundred miles west of Valentia, and are quite confident the interruption is only temporary. Hard to conceive of a remedy! People begin to turn up their noses at the house of Field and at the grand Cyrus in particular. What can the precise difficulty be? Perhaps some weak point in the gutta-percha casing has been infiltrated under the pressure of a thousand fathoms of water. Perhaps some huge sting ray grubbing in the oozy bed of ocean for bivalve mollusca has closed his massive grinding dental plates on the cable, mistaking it for an overgrown scrupula, and given it a fatal crunch.

The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas

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On the afternoon of Friday, October 1, 1858, Lincoln had a luncheon at the home of his attorney friend, Daniel H. Gilmer in Pittsfield, Illinois. Lincoln then headed across the street to the town square, where he spoke for two hours. Following the address, Lincoln, at the request of Gilmer, went to the portable canvas photo gallery of Calvin Jackson on the northeast corner of the square and sat for two ambrotype poses. The photos were soon processed, but one was not finished, probably because it had been overexposed. Lincoln requested that copies of the other be delivered to two Pittsfield friends the following day.

List of photographs of Abraham Lincoln