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Abraham Lincoln was known to make comments to, and about, many different people and these were recorded for historic posterity. Can you identify the person he was referring to or was addressing?
 
 

1.	"So you're the little lady who wrote the book that started this big war." a. Clara Barton b. Mary Todd Lincoln c.  Harriet Beecher Stowe d.  Varina Davis
2.	"If you don't want to use the army, I should like to borrow it for a while.         Yours respectfully, A. Lincoln." a. Ulysses S. Grant b. George B. McClellan c.  Robert E. Lee d.  Philip H. Sheridan
3.	"Tell me what brand of whiskey that _______ drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals." a.  Ulysses S. Grant b.  George B. McClellan c.  Ambrose Burnside d.  Sherman
4.	"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."  a.  Edward Everett b.  Andrew Johnson c.  Jefferson Davis d.  A fellow lawyer

Lincoln also made many famous speeches. Can you identify which speeches these quotes came from?
 
 

5.	"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved -- I do not expect the house to fall -- but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other." a.  November 19, 1863, Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania b.  June 16, 1858, speech in Springfield, Illinois, accepting Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate c.  Address to Congress d.  March 4, 1861, First Inaugural Address in Washington, D.C.
6.	"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced." a.  March 4, 1865, Second Inagural Address in Washington, D.C. b.  Emancipation Proclamation c.  November 19, 1863, Gettysburg Address in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania d.  Speech to the troops during the Peninsular Campaign, Virginia
7.	"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the  right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan--to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations." a.   March 4, 1861, First Inaugural Address in Washington, D.C. b.   March 4, 1865, Second Inagural Address in Washington, D.C. c.   Emancipation Proclamation d.   1863 State of the Union Address
8.	Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag. Soldiers, I bid you God-speed to your homes.  a.  April 1, 1863, Speech to the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry b.  June 15, 1863, Speech to the 20th Maine Infantry c.   July 11, 1863, Proclamation to soldiers supressing the New York draft riots. d.  August 31, 1864, Speech to the 148th Ohio Regiment

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