The True Story of Abraham Lincoln, the American : Told for Boys And Girls
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97 defeated. His tribesmen were scattered and he was taken prisoner. The fighting was over and the " Independent Spy Company " in which Private Lincoln served was disbanded at Whitewater, in Wisconsin, and Lincoln started for home. That very night his horse was stolen by some other home-returning recruit, and he, with his comrade Harrison "just hoofed it," as the soldiers said, most of the way back. Getting an occasional '' lift," now and then, they tramped as LINCOLN COMING HOME FROM THE WAR. ...far as Peoria, in Illinois. Here they got a canoe and paddled to Pekin where they just escaped shipwreck, made friends with the men on a log-raft and on that floated down the Illi- nois river as far as Havana. There they sold their canoe and again footed it across country until they reached home. This was Lincoln's only attempt at " soldiering." It Avas neither very exciting nor very heroic, and, ever after, he w'as accustomed to make fun of his experiences, and especi- ally to " take down " those who tried to boast of their '* mar- 98 CAPTAIN LINCOLN.
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