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It is very strange that I, a boy brought up in the woods, and seeing, as it were, but… — Abraham Lincoln

Interview · Newspaper

It is very strange that I, a boy brought up in the woods, and seeing, as it were, but little of the world, should be drifted into the very apex of this great event.

Abraham Lincoln
1864
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American Civil WarFate
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InterviewNewspaper
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1864
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Abraham Lincoln
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Lincoln, Abraham. Quoted in "The People with the Governing Power," Conversations with Lincoln by Charles M. Segal. G. P. Putman's Sons, 1961.
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Lincoln, Abraham. "Interview of a Canadian Editor with the President." The Daily Dispatch (Richmond), 5 Sept. 1864.

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