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Moonlight: Abraham Lincoln and the Almanac Trial - Kindle edition by Walsh, John Evangelist....
Summer Book Section Research proves Lincoln's love for Ann Rutledge By CHERYL SCHNIRRING John Evangelist Walsh. The Shadows Rise: Abraham Lincoln and the Ann Rutledge Legend. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993. John Evangelist Walsh is the author of more than a dozen books of history The story of how Abraham Lincoln secured the acquittal of murder suspect.Pp. 187 with notes, bibliography, photographs and index. $25.95 (cloth). John Walsh begins The Shadows Rise with a description of how Lincoln's former law partner William Herndon gathered information for his biography of the president, published in 1889. Herndon's interviews with former New Salem residents brought to light Lincoln's first love affair with Ann Rutledge, a relationship doomed by her death in 1835. In a public lecture in Springfield in 1866 Herndon initially presented his findings, which he then printed and distributed. Herndon's papers, now in the Library of Congress, form the bulk of the documentation for the Lincoln-Rutledge story. James G. Randall, the foremost Lincoln scholar of his time, examined the Herndo 
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