Verse On Lee’s Invasion Of The North

Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln

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Gen. Lees invasion of the North written by himself—    In eighteen sixty three, with pomp,
      and mighty swell,
    Me and Jeff’s Confederacy, went
      forth to sack Phil-del,
    The Yankees the got arter us, and
      giv us particular hell,
    And we skedaddled back again,
      And didn’t sack Phil-del.
Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States from 1861 to 1865, led the Union during the Civil War and emancipated slaves in the south in 1863; shortly after the end of the war, John Wilkes Booth assassinated him. As an outspoken opponent of…

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