Word: lincolnisms
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...Lincoln's mother Nancy dies from "milk sickness" after drinking milk from a cow that has eaten poisonous snakeroot. Lincoln would later write of sorrow coming to him with "bitterest agony" when he was young...
...father Thomas Lincoln remarries, bringing Sarah Bush Johnston and her three children into the family. She and Abe had a warm relationship. Years later, she called him "the best boy I ever...
...Lincoln works on a river flatboat, then moves to New Salem, Ill., and works as a clerk and a surveyor. Interest in politics begins...
...Lincoln enlists in a militia during the Black Hawk War but sees no fighting. He would later joke about his time in combat: "I fought, bled, and came away ... I had a good many bloody struggles with the musquetoes...
...second try for public office, Lincoln is elected to the Illinois legislature. He would go on to serve four terms...