Lincoln's ladder to the presidency : the eighth judicial circuit /

Lincoln's ladder to the presidency : the eighth judicial circuit /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fraker, Guy C., 1938-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 > Career in law.
Illinois. > Circuit Court (8th Circuit) > History > 19th century.
Law > Illinois > Downstate Illinois > History > 19th century.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • A new country
  • As happy as he could be
  • Purely and entirely a case lawyer
  • Sangamon, Tazewell, Woodford
  • Mclean, Livingston, Logan, Dewitt
  • Piatt, Champagne, Vermilion
  • Edgar, Shelby, Moultrie, Macon, Christian, Menard, Mason
  • The 1840s and the early 1850s
  • The awakenment
  • The repeal ... aroused me again
  • The tall sucker and the little giant
  • A little sketch
  • No stone unturned
  • We saw him no more.