Biography of Abraham Lincoln (with work cited)

Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809 at sunrise. His birthplace was a one-room log cabin, which was sixteen feet long and eighteen feet wide. The tiny cabin had only one dimly-lit window and hard-packed earth for flooring. When Abraham was six years old he and his sister Sarah walked two miles to a log cabin schoolhouse where he learned to read, write, and do arithmetic. Abe liked writing best of all and practiced it wherever he …

…a great statesman, a firm idealist, and a loving president who would forever be known as Honest Abe. Bibliography: 1. Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia (CD) 98 Edition, Abraham Lincoln 2. Encarta Encyclopedia Deluxe (CD) 98 Edition, Abraham Lincoln 3. Abraham Lincoln The Prairie Years and the War Years, By Carl Sandburg, Published in 1993 by Galahad Books 4. http://www.americanpresidents .org/presidents/president.asp?President Number=16, updated 4/7/02 5. The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties, Mark E. Neely Jr., New York, 1991