With Malice Toward None

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Term Paper Title	With Malice Toward None
# of Words	2392
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	9.57

"With Malice Toward None"
by Stephen B.Oates
Published by Mentor Books

About the Author
Stephen B. Oates is a professor of history at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, and the author of eight other books, including
The Fires of Jubilee and To Purge This Land with Blood. His task in this
biography was to perpetuate Lincoln as he was in the days he lived. His
purpose of this biography was to bring the past into the present for us
and his students.
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
Although other states such as Indiana lay claim to his birth, most
sources agree that Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in a
backwoods cabin in Hodgeville, Kentucky. In an interview during his
campaign for the presidency in 1860 Lincoln described his adolescence as
"the short and simple annals of the poor." (p 30).  His father Thomas
was a farmer who married Nancy Hanks, his mother, in 1806.  Lincoln had
one sister, Sarah, who was born in 1807.
The Lincoln family was more financially comfortable than most despite
the common historical picture of complete poverty.  They moved to
Indiana because of the shaky system of land titles in Kentucky. Because
the Lincoln's arrived in Spencer County at the same time as winter,
Thomas only had time to construct a "half-faced camp."  Made of logs and
boughs, it was enclosed on only three sides with a roaring fire for the
fourth.  The nearest water supply was a mile away, and the family had to
survive on the abundance of wild game in the area.
Less than two years after the move to Indiana, Mrs. Lincoln caught a
horrible frontier disease known as "milk sick.". Thomas Lincoln returned
to Kentucky to find a new wife.  On December 2 he married Sarah Bush
Johnston, a widow with three children, and took them all back to
Indiana.  Although there were now eight people living in the small
shelter, the Lincoln children, especially Abe, adored their new
stepmother who played a key role in making sure that Abe at least had
some formal education, amounting to a little less than a year in all.
To support his family it was necessary that Abe worked for a wage on
nearby farms.
"He was strong and a great athlete, but Abe preferred to read instead.
Although few books were available to a backwoods boy such as himself,
anything that he could obtain he would read tenaciously" (p 56).
Although his formal education had come to an end,
his self-education was just beginning.
After a three month flatboat journey along the Ohio and Mississippi, the
19 ye...

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