There I Grew Up: Remembering Abraham Lincoln's Indiana Youth

by William E. Bartelt

Overview

In 1859 Abraham Lincoln covered his Indiana years in one paragraph and two sentences of a written autobiographical statement that included the following: "We reached our new home about the time the State came into the union. It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals in the woods. There I grew up." William E. Bartelt uses annotation and primary source material to tell the history of Lincoln's Indiana years by those who were there. The book reveals, through the words of those who knew him, Lincoln's humor, compassion, oratorical skills and thirst for knowledge, and it provides an overview of Lincoln's Indiana experiences, his family, the community where the Lincolns settled and southern Indiana from 1816 to 1830.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780871952639
Publisher:	Indiana Historical Society
Publication date:	05/01/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword     ix
Acknowledgments     xiii
Abraham Lincoln Remembers Indiana
"There I grew up": Lincoln's Indiana in Context     1
"The old homestead in Indiana": The Statement for John L. Scripps     9
"My childhood's home I see again": Lincoln's Poetry about Indiana     43
The Lincoln Family Remembers Indiana
"The inner life of Mr. L.": William Henry Herndon Collects the Memories     59
"He was the best boy I ever saw": Sarah (Sally) Bush Johnston Lincoln     63
"He loved us all": Matilda Johnston Hall Moore     73
"[I] knew him intimately and well": Dennis Friend Hanks     77
The Neighbors Remember Lincoln in Indiana
"Old friends of my boyhood": The Little Pigeon Creek Community     101
"The man soared above us": Nathaniel Grigsby     115
"Could I only whisper in her Ear-'Your Son was Presdt'": William Henry Herndon Visits the Sites     127
"A boy of Extraordinary mind": David Turnham     141
"Abe was always a man though a boy": William Wood     153
"Said that he would be Presidt of the US": Elizabeth Crawford     159
"I hit him with an Ear of Corn": Green B. Taylor     171
"Learned boy among us unlearned folks": Anna Caroline Roby Gentry     177
"I want a history written that is all true": Memories andInterpretations after Herndon     181
Appendix     193
Abraham Lincoln in Indiana Chronology     195
Notes     201
Selected Bibliography     219
Index     227