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...ve Mansion May 22, 1863 I was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My parents were born in Virginia, of undistinguished families—se... ...... My paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, emigrated from Virginia to Kentucky about 1781, where a year or two later he was killed by Indians, no... ... he grew up literally without education. When I was eight he removed from Kentucky to Indiana; we reached our new home about the time the state came... ...of necessity. LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 523 My father lived in Knob Creek, Kentucky; from this place he removed to Spencer County, Indiana, in the au... ... seen human beings herded and treated like animals. Our family moved from Kentucky, troubled by the ways of slavery. My black clients sometimes conf... ... of military deception, just as politicians are masters of ambiguity. The colonels have their lingo; the majors have theirs. I confront them with a ...

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..., 25; Ohio, 21; Virginia, 13; Massachusetts and Indiana, 11; Tennessee and Kentucky, 10; South Carolina, 6; and so on, till Delaware, Kansas, and Flor... ... be the Representative of to- morrow. Mr. Crittenden, who was Senator from Kentucky, is now a member of the Lower House from an electoral district in ... ...ll probably be dictated by the North. It may still be hoped that Missouri, Kentucky, Vir- ginia, and Maryland will go with the North, and be res- cued... ...no it was ever furnished I did not hear; but it was openly stated that the colonels of regiments received large gratuities from certain railway compan... ... army of Virginia was called, of which McClellan held the command; that of Kentucky, under General Buell, who was stationed at Louisville on the Ohio;... ...ee rebel armies of Beauregard, in Virginia; of Johnston, on the borders of Kentucky and Tennessee; and of Price, in Missouri. There was also a fourth ... ... forget that night, or the vehement abolition enthusiasm of the two German colonels. Our host had told us that he was a slaveowner; and as our wants w... ...an officer’s rank could in no degree be predicated from his age. Generals, colonels, majors, captains, and lieutenants had been all appointed at the s... ...n for high commands, but beyond this everything was necessarily new. Young colonels and ancient captains abounded without any harsh feeling as to the ...

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...n — no alkali spider about her, I can tell you; she was of the best blood of Kentucky, the bluest Blue grass aristocracy, very proud and acrimonious —... ...hose skeletons were two million years old, which astonished her and made her Kentucky pretensions look small and pretty antiphonal, not to say oblique... ...ble to do. She took the Fort — took it the first day! Took me, too; took the colonels, the captains, the women, the children, and the dumb brutes; too...

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...d—oldest son, by the second marriage. Peter Grant went early to Maysville, Kentucky, where he was very prosperous, married, had a family of nine child... ...ter Grant, who, though not a tanner himself, owned a tannery in Maysville, Kentucky. Here he learned his trade, and in a few years returned to Deerfie... ...s large, inherited her views, with the exception of one son who settled in Kentucky before the war. He was the only one of the children who entered th... ...e winters of 1836-7 and 1838- 9. The former period was spent in Maysville, Kentucky, at- tending the school of Richardson and Rand; the latter in Ripl... ...d Cincinnati, forty-five miles away, several times, alone; also Maysville, Kentucky, often, and once Louisville. The journey to Louisville was a big o... ...ed the service from other localities. The other seven, General McGroierty, Colonels White, Fyffe, Loudon and Marshall, Majors King and Bailey, were al... ... three of my division command- ers were promoted to the same grade and the colonels who commanded brigades were made brigadier-generals in the volunte... ...of the regiments broke at the first fire. In two cases, as I now remember, colonels led their regiments from the field on first hearing the whistle of... ...ld on first hearing the whistle of the enemy’s bullets. In these cases the colonels were consti- tutional cowards, unfit for any military position; bu...

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..., South Carolina, and North Carolina. The South will also claim Tennessee, Kentucky, 118 North America V ol. 1 Missouri, Virginia, Delaware, and Mary... ...rop- erly belongs to the West. As I now write, the struggle is going on in Kentucky and Missouri. In Missouri the slave population is barely more than... ...s by free States of the West, and its soil, let us hope, must become free. Kentucky I must leave as doubtful, though I am inclined to believe that sla... ...though I am inclined to believe that slavery will be abolished there also. Kentucky, at any rate, will never throw in its lot with the Southern States... ...31,565 Delaware 110,548 1,805 112,353 Virginia 1,097,373 495,826 1,593,199 Kentucky 920,077 225,490 1,145,567 Total 2,774,181 808,503 3,582,684 In the... ...old, Dixon had already been decimated and redecimated by former recruiting colonels. Colonel De- ment, from whom the regiment was to be named, and who...

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...e, and any colour you choose that is not white; and Tweezy, who comes from Kentucky, with an affliction of his left hip, which makes him a little unce... ...ave been misinfohmed, most of your prominent siahs, suh, are impo’ted from Kentucky; an’ I’m from Paduky.” There was the least little touch of pride i... ...e: “I want all you here ter understand thet ther ain’t no Kan- sas, ner no Kentucky, ner yet no Vermont, in our business. There’s jest two kind o’ hor... ...beginning of the eighteenth century—tombs of forgotten 86 Rudyard Kipling colonels of corps long since disbanded; mates of East India men who went on... ... top of a regimental coach, yelling like school-boys; and briga- diers and colonels and commissioners, and hundreds of pretty ladies joined the chorus...

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...n general regulates military af- fairs; disposes of all appointments, from colonels to ensigns, and of the governments and posts of fortified towns. I... ...e is to be marched to Georgia, of Georgia to New Hampshire, of New York to Kentucky, and of Kentucky to Lake Champlain. Nay, the debts due to the Fren...