title: Lincoln Day By Day - A Chronology 1809 - 1865
author: Earl S. Miers
description: 1809-1865, Revised edition. Three volumes in one, introduction by Dr. Ralph G. Newman, dust jacket illustration by Dr. Lloyd Ostendorf. With Earl Schenck Miers as editor-in-chief, volumes I and II were edited by William E. Baringer and volume III was edited by C. Percy Powell, 1164 pp., index, cloth, dj
zlib_text: # Abraham Lincoln
  
  The People's Leader in the Struggle for National Existence
  
  ### By
  
  ## George Haven Putnam, Litt. D.
  
  Author of
  
  "Books and Their Makers in the Middle Ages,"
  
  "The Censorship of the Church," etc.
  
  _With the above is included the speech delivered by Lincoln in New York,
  February 27, 1860; with an introduction by Charles C. Nott, late Chief Justice
  of the Court of Claims, and annotations by Judge Nott and by Cephas Brainerd
  of New York Bar_ .
  
  1909
  
    
  
  INTRODUCTORY NOTE
  
    
  
  The twelfth of February, 1909, was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of
  Abraham Lincoln. In New York, as in other cities and towns throughout the
  Union, the day was devoted to commemoration exercises, and even in the South,
  in centres like Atlanta (the capture of which in 1864 had indicated the
  collapse of the cause of the Confederacy), representative Southerners gave
  their testimony to the life and character of the great American.
  
  The Committee in charge of the commemoration in New York arr