Lincoln, Abraham...11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21,
23, 26, 30, 31, 33, 38, 41, 43, 44, 50,
53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 63, 67,

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ANECDOTES AND STORIES

DRILLS, ENTERTAINMENTS, EXERCISES, Etc.

Acrostic Exercise (7 couples)
Acrostic Exercise (7 boys).

Biographical Exercise for Lincoln's Day (9 pupils)

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Circle of Tributes to Lincoln (12 boys, 1 girl)
Crowning Our Hero Great (4 pupils).

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Flags Celebrate Lincoln's Birthday (Any number)

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Hall of Liberty (10 boys, 8 girls)...

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Historical Exercise for Twenty-four.

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Lincoln Sobriquets (14 boys or 14 girls, or 7 boys, 7 girls).

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Lincoln's Books and Work (3 pupils).
Nine Years' Events (9 pupils)..

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Parade of Little Giants and Wide-Awakes (Any number boys)
Seven Little Beacon Lanterns..

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Wreath to Lincoln's Memory (9 pupils, School, Goddess of

Liberty)

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LINCOLN'S OWN WRITINGS

Acceptance of Nomination for the Presidency in 1860.

"All Men Are Created Equal".

LINCOLN'S OWN WRITINGS (Continued)

Spoken and Written Language..

Struggle Between Right and Wrong.

Temperance Reform

To a Mother of Five Sons Killed in Battle.

Tribute to Colonel Ellsworth..

Young America

ORATIONS

Behold a Martyr

Immortal Lincoln

Sublime Opportunity of History.

Typical American

(See also "Lincoln's Own Writings.”)

QUOTATIONS ABOUT AND TRIBUTES TO LINCOLN

All Hail the Name of Lincoln (words and music).
Irish Wide-Awake Quickstep Song (air suggested)
Massa Linkum by de Han' (air suggested).
Old Abr'am (no air)..

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Quakers Are Out (no air).

Rally-in Song (air suggested)

(These songs may also be recited without music.)

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1818

1819

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1831

1832

1833

1834

CHRONOLOGY OF LINCOLN.

Dates of Important Events in His Life.

February 12. Born in log-cabin in Hardin (now Larue)
County, Kentucky.

His father moves with family into wilderness near Gentry-
ville, Ind.

His mother (Nancy Hanks Lincoln) dies, at age of 35.
His father's second marriage, to Mrs. Sarah Johnston, widow
with three children.

Makes trip to New Orleans and back, at work on flat-boat.
February and March. Lincoln family remove to Macon County,
Illinois; log-house, near Decatur, on Sangamon River.
Abraham of age, works independently; makes 3,000 fence-rails
under contract.

May. Makes another flat-boat trip to New Orleans and back,
on which trip he first sees negroes shackled together in
chains, and forms his opinions concerning slavery.

Begins work in store at New Salem, Ill.

Lincoln's first political address.

Enlists in Black Hawk War; elected captain of volunteers.
Storekeeper, postmaster, surveyor, at New Salem.

Elected to Illinois Legislature.

1835 Death of Lincoln's betrothed, Ann Rutledge, at New Salem.

Lincoln deeply grieved.

1836-42 Re-elected to Illinois Legislature biennially.

1837

1842

1846

Forms law partnership with John T. Stuart at Springfield.
November 4. Marries Mary Todd.

Elected to Congress.

1848 Declines re-election to Congress.

1849

Returns to Springfield to law practice. Engages in this until 1854.

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1851

1854

1855

January 17. His father, Thomas Lincoln, dies in Coles County,
Illinois.

Lincoln's family now consisted of three sons (one had died in
infancy); his law practice remunerative.

Debates with Douglas at Peoria and Springfield.
Elected to Illinois Legislature; resigns to seek U. S. Senator-
ship, but defeated by Douglas, is re-elected to Illinois
Legislature.

1855-56 Aids in organizing Republican Party.

1858

1859

1860

1861

1862

1863

Joint debates in Illinois with Stephen A. Douglas.

Makes political speeches in Ohio, Kansas, etc.

February. Lincoln tours New England; visits New York City
and speaks at Cooper Institute, being introduced by Will-
iam Cullen Bryant.

March 16-18. Chicago Republican Convention. Nominated for
President; Hannibal Hamlin, Vice-President.

November 6. Elected President over J. C. Breckenridge, Stephen
A. Douglas, and John Bell.

March 4. Inaugurated President (the sixteenth).
April 15.

Issues first order for troops to put down Rebellion. February. President Lincoln's son Willie, ten years old, dies in White House.

March. President as acting Commander-in-Chief overrules General McClellan and Council of War as to immediate forward movement.

July 2. Calls for 300,000 three-years' troops.

August 4. Calls for 300,000 men, special, nine months.

January 1. Issues Emancipation Proclamation.

July 1-4. Victories for Union armies. Battle of Gettysburg;
defeat for Lee's Army. Vicksburg captured by Grant.
Lincoln thanks Grant for the capture.

September 17. Calls for 300,000 three-years' troops.
November 19. His address at Gettysburg.

February. Calls for 500,000 volunteers. Renominated and re-
elected President.

Lincoln inaugurated, second term.

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1865

March 4.

April 3.

Fall of Richmond, capital of Confederates.

April 4.

Lincoln visits Richmond.

April 9.

Surrender of Lee and practical end of Civil War.

April 14. President assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, at

Washington. He died next morning.

May 4. Burial at Springfield, Ill.

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