Abe Lincoln Grows Up Book Report

ABE LINCOLN GROWS UP

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A Book Review

Presented to

Mr. Parsons and Mrs. Amy Lack

Woodville High School

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U.S. History I and English 10

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by

Kaci Wright

April 19th, 2017

Abe Lincoln Grows Up

Abe Lincoln Grows up by Carl Sandburg is a 222-page biography. Here we have Lincoln’s childhood at Knob Creek Farm and on Little Pigeon Creek; his games and chores; the things he handles and uses; his life at Gentryville and on the Mississippi; all the way until age 19, leaving home for New Salem. This book review includes a summary of the book, an analysis, and a character analysis.

Carl Sandburg was born on January 6th, 1878, in Galesburg Illinois. Carl left school when he was nineteen and enlisted in the state militia. He sent letters to the Gailsburg Evening mail about his experiences. Carl Sandburg made this biography from the first twenty-seven chapters of the original two volume biography. This biography was first published for Lincoln’s birthday, 1926. James Daughtry has drawn illustrations to help readers visualize some of Abe Lincoln’s experiences.

In the year 1776, England gave to the world a piece of paper known as the Declaration of Independence.

At the time, Abraham Lincoln was a captain of Virginia militia living in Rockingham County. Working as a farmer on a 210-acre farm deeded from his father, John Lincoln. In that same year, Abraham Lincoln took many Cherokee tribes in marches and fights. It was a time of fighting for the red and white men. To the north and east were the white men and to the south and west were the red men. Amos Lincoln went on a British ship and dumped a cargo of tea overboard to show their dominance. Now Abraham Lincoln had married a woman named Bathsheba Herring. She had three sons; Mordecai, Josiah, and Thomas and two daughters; Mary and Nancy. In the year 1782, Abraham and his family moved to

Kentucky.
As Tom Lincoln became full grown, he became more independent and liked to not be interfered with. He was looking for a woman to travel through life with. Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, on June 12th, 1806, married at the Methodist Episcopal Church. Tom and Nancy had a daughter and named her Sarah. Tom worked at a carpenter’s trade making cabinets, door frames, and coffins. His reputation was as a solid, reliable man by now.
The same year the Lincolns moved to a place on the Big South Fork of Nolin’s Creek. They lived in a cabin with a floor packed down with dirt with a stick-clay chimney that carried the fire smoke up and away. One morning in February in 1809, Tom Lincoln came out of the cabin to announce Nancy, his wife, would be giving birth to a new child very soon. This new baby boy was named Abraham after his grandfather.
The Lincoln family lived three crop years where baby Abe was born. It was called the Rock Spring farm because at the foot of one of it’s sloping hills the rocks curved in like the beginning of a cave the had a never ending flow of water. Abe at seven years old, walked four miles a day going to Knob Creek school where he learned how to count and spell.
In the year 1828, Abe Lincoln had heard about Andrew Jackson when he swept the country with a big land slide. With Andrew Jackson for president , the plainest kind of people people could go into the White House and feel at home.