An Old Soldier's Story of Lincoln single work   prose   war literature  
Issue Details: First known date: 1895... 1895 An Old Soldier's Story of Lincoln
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US Civil War tale set in a military hospital in 1863. A wounded soldier recalls President Lincoln sitting with a 16 year-old Vermont youth the 2 hours it took him to die. Pathos; warmth. (PB)

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