Introduction: "I saw him this morning about 8:30"
"I have heard much of this blessed good woman"
"Nancy's got a boy baby."
"Constantly handling that most useful instrument."
"I am going away from you, Abraham"
"Land o'Goshen, that boy air a' growin'"
"Mighty darned good lies"
"Why dost thou tear more blest ones hence?"
"I can see the quivering and shining of that half-dollar yet"
"I found him no green horn"
"The best feller that ever broke into this settlement"
"Something that was knotty"
"They surely thought it was a dream"
"Captain Abraham Lincoln's Company of the First Regiment of the Brigade of Volunteers"
"Charges upon the wild onions...bloody struggles with the mosquitoes"
"The only time I ever have been beaten"
"I loved the woman dearly and sacredly"
"Oh! Why should the spirit of mortal be proud?"
