、 MhO was there. Lincoln sometimes talked tO his generals with one of the boys climbing 叩 his chair and onto his shoulders. Sometimes they napped on the floor, overhearing state secrets. 朝 7 ク The boys had a soldier doll named Jack. One day they decided that Jack had gone to sleep on guard duty and had to be punished. They 60

Lincoln didn't mind the bad food or the rough li He liked meeting people. He impressed them with his funny stories, his friendliness, his skill, and his honesty. "lf. . you cannot be an honest la 、 vyer," he said, "resolve tO be honest without being a lawyer. Lincoln was a strong supporter of the Whig Party. Soon he became one Of the most important party members in lllinois. Wherever he went, he worked hard campaigning for Whig candidates. He kne 、 thousands Of voters by name. Lincoln was comfortable with most people, but he was shy and awkward around young women. A couple of years after he moved to Springfield, he met Mary Todd at a party. Although he stepped all over her feet when they danced together, Mary liked Lincoln. She was a Southern belle who, at t 、 Menty-one, 、 vas very eager tO get married. Pretty and lively, she put Lincoln at ease by doing most of the talking herself. Mary was 24

write. ln lndiana, he sometlmes 、 Ment tO a "blab —a place where all the students said school' their lessons out loud together. The schoolmaster listened and tried tO pick out their mistakes through the noise. Abraham finished with school for good at the age of fifteen. Altogether, he had gone for only about a year. But he had learned how to read. Now he could teach himself anything he wanted. He read every book he could find. He once walked t 、ö,renty miles tO borrow one. lt took him a long time to finish a book. Many ー 7 1 10

The Union was fighting to keep the United States united, but also tO guarantee that government Of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. According tO S01 れ e listeners, the end Of Lincoln's speech was greeted with silence. People 、 t00 moved even tO clap. Edward Everett wrote that Lincoln, in t 、 MO minutes, had gotten tO the heart Of the subject better than his own entire long speech. History agrees with Everett. The Gettysburg Address widely considered one of the most beautiful and important speeches ever wrltten. But the war had gone on for almost a thousand days, and there was still no end in sight.

TllANkSGlVlNG EVER 9 CE THE P ル G MS ′ AMERICANS HAVE CELEBRATEP PAYS OF THANKSGIVING. BIÅT UNTIL 旧 5 THERE WAS NO ONE PAY OF THE YEAR THAT PEOPLE THOUGHT OF AS THANKSGIVING VAY. SARAH JOSEPHA HALE (WHO WROTE THE NURSERY RHYME 、、 MARY HAP A LITTLE し AMB つ THOUGHT THERE SHOU しワ BE. STARTING 旧 27 SHE WROTE TO EVERY PRESIPENT, URGING HIM TO ESTABLISH ONE. BIÅT NO ONE LISTENEP UNTIL ABRAHAM 凵 N00 し AFTER THE VICTORY AT GETTYSBURG, HE ISSUEP A PRO ごし AMA 02 SETTING ASIPE THE LAST THURSVAY OF NOVEMBER AS A PAY TO GIVE THANKS FOR THE SURVIVAL OF THE NATION. 0

Chapter 2 The Wider World Abraham Lincoln knew he didn't want to be a farmer like his father. But he didn't know what he did want to do. So when he was twenty-one, he decided to leave home and find out. - ・ぐフーっ つ、つ He was hired to help sail flatboats loaded with supplies down the Sangamon River. One time, the 13

The Lincolns were poor. They moved om one small farm tO another, trying tO scratch out a living. When Abraham was seven, the family moved 伝 om Kentucky to lndiana.

During the campalgn, an eleven-year- 01d girl named Grace Bedell had written tO him. She said she thought he'd look more like a president ifhe had a beard. SO no 、 he grew one. つ、 ) 48

They had to fight battles one right after another. And they needed to destroy railroads and factories that helped keep the Confederate army going ・ Grant planned tO 、 vear out the South SO it 、 vould have tO surrender. But it 、 vould take time. And it 、 Mould cause many thousands 1 れ ore deaths. ワう・ ノ / 73

One reason for the move was that Kentucky was a "slave state," 、 lndiana 、 a state. The Lincoln family hated slavery. Abraham later said that he was naturally antislavery" as far back as he could remember. Eventually, the Lincolns ended up on a tiny farm in lllinois. YIAIN oELAWARe ? 第神解Ⅳ 一をニうミ三にら一三 、、 0 、で EX AS•