Ellen Wallace on Abraham Lincoln

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This file appears in: Abraham Lincoln Boyhood Home at Knob Creek

Hopkinsville resident Ellen Wallace was opposed to President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Taken from the Diary of Ellen Wallace, found at the Kentucky Historical Society. Audio clip courtesy the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Abraham Lincoln Boyhood Home at Knob Creek

By Talbott
The summer before Abraham Lincoln was elected president, he wrote a response to Samuel Haycraft, who had asked Lincoln to return to Kentucky to visit his boyhood home. Although few Kentuckians…