Identifier: reminiscencesaboralinc (find matches)
Title: Reminiscences about Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents Presidents
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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in his boots or not, Mrs. Ray related. Pa said hedressed that way because hethought the people would like himbetter. Mrs. Rays brother, N. A. Har-vey of Ypsilanti, Mich., has a let-ter which Lincoln wrote to theirfather in 1865. In the letter, Lin-coln said he had a presentimentthat something was going to hap-pen to him or to the government.Two weeks later, while attendinga performance in the Ford thea-tre, he was assassinated. .1 ^ w* m\ > 3 X) IP
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Maybe youd like to hear how Ilost my tpelh, asked the old veteran, jWe were on duty in the Antelope jhill.-- I received orders to sound ;cavalry. I had placed the bugle!between my lips and was about toeound the call when my horse threw jIts head back and jammed the oldborn back into my mouth. The im- !pact knocked my teeth out. I in- jvestigated and found that about fourfeet ahead of us was a rattle snakecoiled and ready to strike. We gotout of there in a hurry you can bet. jSang With Minstrels. After serving seven years and be- !ihg. honorably discharged Etaeklyestcame home to Elmira. Being of a ;musical nature he joined the Barlow- !Wilson Minstrel troup and also sang jwith the famous Primrose-West-troup. Ho travelled all over the icountry and says he sang in nearly Ievery city in the .country and re-members playing in Buffalo. Later jbe joined an English opera company, jsinging bass parts. After completing his theatrical jcareer, he set out to make his mark jin music. He directed mreminiscencesaboralinc

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