![]() The company elected Lincoln as their captain and Lincoln later recalled that "he has not since had any success in life which gave him so much satisfaction." Lincoln traveled throughout northern Illinois during his four-month service in the Black Hawk War and had "a good many bloody struggles with the musquetoes and, although I never fainted from loss of blood, I can truly say I was often very hungry." But his campaign was interrupted when he joined other volunteers in the 31st Regiment, Illinois Militia, formed to quell an Indian uprising. Within a year of Lincoln's arrival at New Salem, he began his political career by campaigning for the Illinois state legislature. Upon his return, he moved to New Salem, Illinois to live on his own for the first time. The following year Lincoln again hired himself out to take a flat boat to New Orleans. It was also in Indiana that "in his tenth year he was kicked by a horse, and apparently killed for a time." but, after several minutes, Lincoln regained consciousness. Lincoln experienced the death of two close family members within ten years of one another on this harsh frontier. Tragedy again befell the Lincoln family on Januwhen Lincoln's sister Sarah, who had married Arron Grigsby in 1826, died while in childbirth. schools by littles" and 'the agregate of all his schooling did not amount to one year." Lincoln later recalled that he "went to A.B.C. "She proved a good and kind mother to A." The new Lincoln family continued to farm and the children attended school when they could. On December 2, 1819, Thomas Lincoln married again to widow Sarah Bush Johnston and returned home with his new wife and her three children. The death of Lincoln's mother left young Lincoln and his sister responsible for the great amount of work involved with maintaining a frontier home and farm. When he referred to her in later years, he described her as his "Angel Mother," that is, his deceased mother. Lincoln was only nine years old when she died, and he wrote little about her. On October 5, 1818, Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks, died of "Milk Sickness" an often terminal illness that occurred when one drank the milk from a cow that had eaten a toxic plant - white snakeroot. Lincoln lived with his family on the farm of his birth until 1811 when they moved several miles away to a farm on Knob Creek. ![]() Lincoln's father was a farmer who spent much of his life on the frontier continually pushing west for better opportunities. Abraham Lincoln was the first president born in a log cabin, and the first born outside the original thirteen states. Lincoln's older sister, Sarah, was born in 1807 and his younger brother, Thomas, who died in infancy, was born in 1812. Lincoln was the second of three children born to Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. It had a dirt floor and no glass windows. Yet through most of his life Lincoln was just one of many frontier boys, or militia members, or attorneys, or, as he was in 1809, just one of many Americans entering the world on the frontier of a young nation.Ībraham Lincoln was born on Februnear Hodgenville Kentucky, in a one room log cabin. Today we most often see Lincoln in the form of larger-than-life statues, such as this one that sits in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. ![]() Townsend, Historian, Lincoln Home National Historic Site ![]()
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