This article reflects the prevailing theories regarding Nancy Hanks Lincoln's heritage. There is information, however, published about the Shipley and Berry family and for Kentucky heritage sites that differs from the prevailing theory. This is explored in greater detail in the Nancy Hanks Lincoln heritage article.
Early life and education
Nancy Hanks Lincoln was born to Lucy Hanks in what was at that time part of Hampshire County, Virginia. Today, the same location is in Antioch in Mineral County, West Virginia. Years after her birth, Abraham Lincoln's law partner William Herndon reported that Lincoln told him his maternal grandfather was "a well-bred Virginia farmer or planter."
According to William E. Barton in the "Life of Abraham Lincoln" and Michael Burkhimer in "100 Essential Lincoln Books", Nancy was most likely born illegitimate due to the fact that Hanks' family created stories in order to lead Abraham to believe he was a legitimate member of the Sparrow family.
"Nancy Hanks Mother of Abraham Lincoln," by Vachel Lindsay
"Nancy Hanks Mother of Abraham Lincoln," by Vachel Lindsay. Performed by Kevin Purcell. Filmed at Sibert Theatre, Illinois College.
More: https://thestorytellerstudios.com/vachel
#thestorytellerstudios #videoproduction #poetry #springfieldil #vachellindsay
published: 23 Apr 2023
Joshua Claybourn on Lincoln's Birth and Nancy Lincoln's Ancestry
Lincoln historian Joshua Claybourn appears by himself to discuss Lincoln's birth and Nancy Lincoln's ancestry.
Host: Joshua Claybourn
Personal home page: http://www.joshclaybourn.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoshuaClaybourn
published: 17 Jan 2021
A Historical Wild Goose Chase, Mitochondrial DNA, and the Maternal Ancestry of Nancy Hanks Lincoln
Presentation recorded Sunday, October 22, 2017 at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana - 2 pm - Meeting Room A
Richard Hileman is one of the author/researchers of The Nancy Hanks Lincoln mtDNA Study. Abraham Lincoln was conspicuously silent about the family of his mother, Nancy Hanks. From 1900 into the 1950s, her ancestry was the subject of intense interest and was hotly contested. Hileman presents new historical evidence revealing the surprising truth Lincoln concealed about his mother's family and ancestry.
published: 29 Jan 2023
LINCOLN'S PARENTS! THEIR STORY!
We visited the Lincoln Homestead State Park, in Washington County, Kentucky. This is the location that the parents of President Abraham Lincoln met, fell in love and married. Abe’s father Thomas escaped death from a Native American when he was a small boy thanks to his brother Mordecai. He grew to become a well-known skilled carpenter in the area. Abe’s mother Nancy Hanks had an interesting life that today is full of rumors and speculation. After her father died, her and her mother moved to live with their family and stayed at the home of her uncle Francis Berry. Thomas and Nancy met here and that is where the story of one of America’s favorite sons begins.
In this video, we tell this story onsite where Thomas and Nancy met, showing you the history that lies within these few acres. Lincol...
published: 09 Mar 2022
Nancy Hanks Lincoln's Grave - Mother of Abraham Lincoln
published: 29 May 2018
Nancy Hanks Gravesite at Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial HD :23
Visit the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial where Abraham Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks, is buried. For more attractions in Lincoln's Indiana Boyhood Home and other nearby attractions, including Holiday World & Splashin' Safari, call (888) 444 - 9252 or visit www.IndianasAbeLincoln.org.
published: 10 May 2012
The Most Important Letter Abraham Lincoln Never Sent | Nancy Koehn | Big Think
The Most Important Letter Abraham Lincoln Never Sent
New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink
Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: https://bigth.ink/Edge
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Want to be one of the greatest leaders of all time, with a wealth of success, power and respect? Try doing nothing for a change, says Harvard historian Nancy Koehn. This counterintuitive advice applies to moments of crisis, when the stakes are high and emotions are tense, because that is the very time when you're apt to make errors in your decision-making. Anger brings weakness, but you can conquer the trap of emotion by removing yourself from the situation, and sitting in silence to think. To prove that doing nothing in t...
published: 13 Oct 2017
Nancy Hanks Lincoln's birthplace and 2 famous graves in Keyser, WV.
Join me and my daughter on another great adventure. we visit Antioch and Keyser WV. We visit Abraham Lincoln's Mother's birthplace. and 2 famous graves in the area. Please subscribe and like the video. and thanks for all of your support to my channel. feel free to leave comments and suggestions of other things you would like to see. And enjoy this week's blog.
published: 30 Jul 2023
Horacio the handsnake - Nancy Hanks Lincoln
published: 19 Jan 2021
Nancy Hanks: Abraham Lincoln Tribute
Poem by Rosemary Benet, Music by Katherine Davis, Vocalist Julie Haueisen, August 2016
"Nancy Hanks Mother of Abraham Lincoln," by Vachel Lindsay. Performed by Kevin Purcell. Filmed at Sibert Theatre, Illinois College.
More: https://thestorytelle...
"Nancy Hanks Mother of Abraham Lincoln," by Vachel Lindsay. Performed by Kevin Purcell. Filmed at Sibert Theatre, Illinois College.
More: https://thestorytellerstudios.com/vachel
#thestorytellerstudios #videoproduction #poetry #springfieldil #vachellindsay
"Nancy Hanks Mother of Abraham Lincoln," by Vachel Lindsay. Performed by Kevin Purcell. Filmed at Sibert Theatre, Illinois College.
More: https://thestorytellerstudios.com/vachel
#thestorytellerstudios #videoproduction #poetry #springfieldil #vachellindsay
Lincoln historian Joshua Claybourn appears by himself to discuss Lincoln's birth and Nancy Lincoln's ancestry.
Host: Joshua Claybourn
Personal home page: http:...
Lincoln historian Joshua Claybourn appears by himself to discuss Lincoln's birth and Nancy Lincoln's ancestry.
Host: Joshua Claybourn
Personal home page: http://www.joshclaybourn.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoshuaClaybourn
Lincoln historian Joshua Claybourn appears by himself to discuss Lincoln's birth and Nancy Lincoln's ancestry.
Host: Joshua Claybourn
Personal home page: http://www.joshclaybourn.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoshuaClaybourn
Presentation recorded Sunday, October 22, 2017 at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana - 2 pm - Meeting Room A
Richard Hileman is one of the ...
Presentation recorded Sunday, October 22, 2017 at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana - 2 pm - Meeting Room A
Richard Hileman is one of the author/researchers of The Nancy Hanks Lincoln mtDNA Study. Abraham Lincoln was conspicuously silent about the family of his mother, Nancy Hanks. From 1900 into the 1950s, her ancestry was the subject of intense interest and was hotly contested. Hileman presents new historical evidence revealing the surprising truth Lincoln concealed about his mother's family and ancestry.
Presentation recorded Sunday, October 22, 2017 at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana - 2 pm - Meeting Room A
Richard Hileman is one of the author/researchers of The Nancy Hanks Lincoln mtDNA Study. Abraham Lincoln was conspicuously silent about the family of his mother, Nancy Hanks. From 1900 into the 1950s, her ancestry was the subject of intense interest and was hotly contested. Hileman presents new historical evidence revealing the surprising truth Lincoln concealed about his mother's family and ancestry.
We visited the Lincoln Homestead State Park, in Washington County, Kentucky. This is the location that the parents of President Abraham Lincoln met, fell in lov...
We visited the Lincoln Homestead State Park, in Washington County, Kentucky. This is the location that the parents of President Abraham Lincoln met, fell in love and married. Abe’s father Thomas escaped death from a Native American when he was a small boy thanks to his brother Mordecai. He grew to become a well-known skilled carpenter in the area. Abe’s mother Nancy Hanks had an interesting life that today is full of rumors and speculation. After her father died, her and her mother moved to live with their family and stayed at the home of her uncle Francis Berry. Thomas and Nancy met here and that is where the story of one of America’s favorite sons begins.
In this video, we tell this story onsite where Thomas and Nancy met, showing you the history that lies within these few acres. Lincoln is a polarizing and controversial figure, both in history and today, but without the moments that happened here, the Civil War and American history would certainly be different.
Check out our website- www.familytreenuts.org
#lincoln #history #civilwar #historychannel #historychannelshows #historyshows #historydocumentary
We visited the Lincoln Homestead State Park, in Washington County, Kentucky. This is the location that the parents of President Abraham Lincoln met, fell in love and married. Abe’s father Thomas escaped death from a Native American when he was a small boy thanks to his brother Mordecai. He grew to become a well-known skilled carpenter in the area. Abe’s mother Nancy Hanks had an interesting life that today is full of rumors and speculation. After her father died, her and her mother moved to live with their family and stayed at the home of her uncle Francis Berry. Thomas and Nancy met here and that is where the story of one of America’s favorite sons begins.
In this video, we tell this story onsite where Thomas and Nancy met, showing you the history that lies within these few acres. Lincoln is a polarizing and controversial figure, both in history and today, but without the moments that happened here, the Civil War and American history would certainly be different.
Check out our website- www.familytreenuts.org
#lincoln #history #civilwar #historychannel #historychannelshows #historyshows #historydocumentary
Visit the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial where Abraham Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks, is buried. For more attractions in Lincoln's Indiana Boyhood Home and ...
Visit the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial where Abraham Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks, is buried. For more attractions in Lincoln's Indiana Boyhood Home and other nearby attractions, including Holiday World & Splashin' Safari, call (888) 444 - 9252 or visit www.IndianasAbeLincoln.org.
Visit the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial where Abraham Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks, is buried. For more attractions in Lincoln's Indiana Boyhood Home and other nearby attractions, including Holiday World & Splashin' Safari, call (888) 444 - 9252 or visit www.IndianasAbeLincoln.org.
The Most Important Letter Abraham Lincoln Never Sent
New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink
Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and d...
The Most Important Letter Abraham Lincoln Never Sent
New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink
Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: https://bigth.ink/Edge
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Want to be one of the greatest leaders of all time, with a wealth of success, power and respect? Try doing nothing for a change, says Harvard historian Nancy Koehn. This counterintuitive advice applies to moments of crisis, when the stakes are high and emotions are tense, because that is the very time when you're apt to make errors in your decision-making. Anger brings weakness, but you can conquer the trap of emotion by removing yourself from the situation, and sitting in silence to think. To prove that doing nothing in times of severe anger is a leadership skill worth developing, Koehn tells the story of the most important letter Abraham Lincoln never sent—if he had had email or twitter (i.e. quick reactions) back in 1863, the outcome of the Civil War and U.S. history may have been drastically different. It turns out you can win almost any fight if you learn how to respond thoughtfully in time, instead of reacting rashly in an instant. Nancy Koehn is the author of Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NANCY KOEHN:
Nancy Koehn is a historian at the Harvard Business School where she holds the James E. Robison chair of Business Administration. Koehn's research focuses on how leaders, past and present, craft lives of purpose, worth, and impact.
Her new book, Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times is an enthralling historical narrative filled with critical leadership insights that will be of interest to a wide range of readers—including those in government, business, education, and the arts—Forged in Crisis spotlights five masters of crisis: polar explorer Ernest Shackleton; President Abraham Lincoln; legendary abolitionist Frederick Douglass; Nazi-resisting clergyman Dietrich Bonhoeffer; and environmental crusader Rachel Carson.
Koehn is the author of numerous books, articles, and Harvard Business School cases. She writes frequently for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Harvard Business Review Online. She is also a weekly commentator on National Public Radio and has appeared on many national television programs. She has spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Aspen Ideas Festival, and in many other venues.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University, Koehn earned a Master of Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government before taking her MA and PhD in History from Harvard. She lives outside Boston and is a dedicated equestrian.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TRANSCRIPT:
Nancy Koehn: One of the most interesting and powerful lessons that I discovered in writing this book was that each of these five people — that’s Ernest Shackleton the Antarctic explorer; our sixteenth president Abraham Lincoln; the abolitionist and civil liberties crusader Frederick Douglass; the resistor to Nazi Germany’s evils Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor; and the environmental activist Rachel Carson, discover that sometimes doing nothing is the most powerful, the most significant, the most influential thing a leader can do.
And they discover that mostly by making mistakes, by acting quickly, decisively, rashly in a high stakes moment when they are highly charged, when they are emotionally very hot in terms of their temperature, and when people around them are emotionally very hot in terms of their emotional temperatures. They discover the power of waiting, of doing nothing when the stakes are high and emotional temperatures are high. And they discover this lesson because they make the mistake of acting, of writing, of speaking out, of making a decision when they are very, very hot under the collar, right? When their hair on the back of their neck is really on end. And they realize, “This is not my best mode. This is not my strongest self. I can actually do a lot of damage to my mission, my followers, what I’m trying to accomplish if I make choices when I don’t see myself as clearly, when I’m not as temperate and careful and thoughtful and reflective and emotionally aware as I might be.”
And so one of the best examples of this is an example that occurred right after the Battle of Gettysburg. And I tell it in the conclusion to the book. Abraham Lincoln has just learned that the Union Army, commanded by a general named George Meade, has won a decisive battle in three days of bloody fighting in southern Pennsylvania in Gettysburg against Robert ...
For the full transcript, check out https://bigthink.com/videos/nancy-koehn-the-most-important-letter-abraham-lincoln-never-sent
The Most Important Letter Abraham Lincoln Never Sent
New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink
Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: https://bigth.ink/Edge
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Want to be one of the greatest leaders of all time, with a wealth of success, power and respect? Try doing nothing for a change, says Harvard historian Nancy Koehn. This counterintuitive advice applies to moments of crisis, when the stakes are high and emotions are tense, because that is the very time when you're apt to make errors in your decision-making. Anger brings weakness, but you can conquer the trap of emotion by removing yourself from the situation, and sitting in silence to think. To prove that doing nothing in times of severe anger is a leadership skill worth developing, Koehn tells the story of the most important letter Abraham Lincoln never sent—if he had had email or twitter (i.e. quick reactions) back in 1863, the outcome of the Civil War and U.S. history may have been drastically different. It turns out you can win almost any fight if you learn how to respond thoughtfully in time, instead of reacting rashly in an instant. Nancy Koehn is the author of Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NANCY KOEHN:
Nancy Koehn is a historian at the Harvard Business School where she holds the James E. Robison chair of Business Administration. Koehn's research focuses on how leaders, past and present, craft lives of purpose, worth, and impact.
Her new book, Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times is an enthralling historical narrative filled with critical leadership insights that will be of interest to a wide range of readers—including those in government, business, education, and the arts—Forged in Crisis spotlights five masters of crisis: polar explorer Ernest Shackleton; President Abraham Lincoln; legendary abolitionist Frederick Douglass; Nazi-resisting clergyman Dietrich Bonhoeffer; and environmental crusader Rachel Carson.
Koehn is the author of numerous books, articles, and Harvard Business School cases. She writes frequently for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Harvard Business Review Online. She is also a weekly commentator on National Public Radio and has appeared on many national television programs. She has spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Aspen Ideas Festival, and in many other venues.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University, Koehn earned a Master of Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government before taking her MA and PhD in History from Harvard. She lives outside Boston and is a dedicated equestrian.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TRANSCRIPT:
Nancy Koehn: One of the most interesting and powerful lessons that I discovered in writing this book was that each of these five people — that’s Ernest Shackleton the Antarctic explorer; our sixteenth president Abraham Lincoln; the abolitionist and civil liberties crusader Frederick Douglass; the resistor to Nazi Germany’s evils Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor; and the environmental activist Rachel Carson, discover that sometimes doing nothing is the most powerful, the most significant, the most influential thing a leader can do.
And they discover that mostly by making mistakes, by acting quickly, decisively, rashly in a high stakes moment when they are highly charged, when they are emotionally very hot in terms of their temperature, and when people around them are emotionally very hot in terms of their emotional temperatures. They discover the power of waiting, of doing nothing when the stakes are high and emotional temperatures are high. And they discover this lesson because they make the mistake of acting, of writing, of speaking out, of making a decision when they are very, very hot under the collar, right? When their hair on the back of their neck is really on end. And they realize, “This is not my best mode. This is not my strongest self. I can actually do a lot of damage to my mission, my followers, what I’m trying to accomplish if I make choices when I don’t see myself as clearly, when I’m not as temperate and careful and thoughtful and reflective and emotionally aware as I might be.”
And so one of the best examples of this is an example that occurred right after the Battle of Gettysburg. And I tell it in the conclusion to the book. Abraham Lincoln has just learned that the Union Army, commanded by a general named George Meade, has won a decisive battle in three days of bloody fighting in southern Pennsylvania in Gettysburg against Robert ...
For the full transcript, check out https://bigthink.com/videos/nancy-koehn-the-most-important-letter-abraham-lincoln-never-sent
Join me and my daughter on another great adventure. we visit Antioch and Keyser WV. We visit Abraham Lincoln's Mother's birthplace. and 2 famous graves in the a...
Join me and my daughter on another great adventure. we visit Antioch and Keyser WV. We visit Abraham Lincoln's Mother's birthplace. and 2 famous graves in the area. Please subscribe and like the video. and thanks for all of your support to my channel. feel free to leave comments and suggestions of other things you would like to see. And enjoy this week's blog.
Join me and my daughter on another great adventure. we visit Antioch and Keyser WV. We visit Abraham Lincoln's Mother's birthplace. and 2 famous graves in the area. Please subscribe and like the video. and thanks for all of your support to my channel. feel free to leave comments and suggestions of other things you would like to see. And enjoy this week's blog.
"Nancy Hanks Mother of Abraham Lincoln," by Vachel Lindsay. Performed by Kevin Purcell. Filmed at Sibert Theatre, Illinois College.
More: https://thestorytellerstudios.com/vachel
#thestorytellerstudios #videoproduction #poetry #springfieldil #vachellindsay
Lincoln historian Joshua Claybourn appears by himself to discuss Lincoln's birth and Nancy Lincoln's ancestry.
Host: Joshua Claybourn
Personal home page: http://www.joshclaybourn.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoshuaClaybourn
Presentation recorded Sunday, October 22, 2017 at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana - 2 pm - Meeting Room A
Richard Hileman is one of the author/researchers of The Nancy Hanks Lincoln mtDNA Study. Abraham Lincoln was conspicuously silent about the family of his mother, Nancy Hanks. From 1900 into the 1950s, her ancestry was the subject of intense interest and was hotly contested. Hileman presents new historical evidence revealing the surprising truth Lincoln concealed about his mother's family and ancestry.
We visited the Lincoln Homestead State Park, in Washington County, Kentucky. This is the location that the parents of President Abraham Lincoln met, fell in love and married. Abe’s father Thomas escaped death from a Native American when he was a small boy thanks to his brother Mordecai. He grew to become a well-known skilled carpenter in the area. Abe’s mother Nancy Hanks had an interesting life that today is full of rumors and speculation. After her father died, her and her mother moved to live with their family and stayed at the home of her uncle Francis Berry. Thomas and Nancy met here and that is where the story of one of America’s favorite sons begins.
In this video, we tell this story onsite where Thomas and Nancy met, showing you the history that lies within these few acres. Lincoln is a polarizing and controversial figure, both in history and today, but without the moments that happened here, the Civil War and American history would certainly be different.
Check out our website- www.familytreenuts.org
#lincoln #history #civilwar #historychannel #historychannelshows #historyshows #historydocumentary
Visit the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial where Abraham Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks, is buried. For more attractions in Lincoln's Indiana Boyhood Home and other nearby attractions, including Holiday World & Splashin' Safari, call (888) 444 - 9252 or visit www.IndianasAbeLincoln.org.
The Most Important Letter Abraham Lincoln Never Sent
New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink
Join Big Think Edge for exclusive video lessons from top thinkers and doers: https://bigth.ink/Edge
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Want to be one of the greatest leaders of all time, with a wealth of success, power and respect? Try doing nothing for a change, says Harvard historian Nancy Koehn. This counterintuitive advice applies to moments of crisis, when the stakes are high and emotions are tense, because that is the very time when you're apt to make errors in your decision-making. Anger brings weakness, but you can conquer the trap of emotion by removing yourself from the situation, and sitting in silence to think. To prove that doing nothing in times of severe anger is a leadership skill worth developing, Koehn tells the story of the most important letter Abraham Lincoln never sent—if he had had email or twitter (i.e. quick reactions) back in 1863, the outcome of the Civil War and U.S. history may have been drastically different. It turns out you can win almost any fight if you learn how to respond thoughtfully in time, instead of reacting rashly in an instant. Nancy Koehn is the author of Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NANCY KOEHN:
Nancy Koehn is a historian at the Harvard Business School where she holds the James E. Robison chair of Business Administration. Koehn's research focuses on how leaders, past and present, craft lives of purpose, worth, and impact.
Her new book, Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times is an enthralling historical narrative filled with critical leadership insights that will be of interest to a wide range of readers—including those in government, business, education, and the arts—Forged in Crisis spotlights five masters of crisis: polar explorer Ernest Shackleton; President Abraham Lincoln; legendary abolitionist Frederick Douglass; Nazi-resisting clergyman Dietrich Bonhoeffer; and environmental crusader Rachel Carson.
Koehn is the author of numerous books, articles, and Harvard Business School cases. She writes frequently for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Harvard Business Review Online. She is also a weekly commentator on National Public Radio and has appeared on many national television programs. She has spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Aspen Ideas Festival, and in many other venues.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University, Koehn earned a Master of Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government before taking her MA and PhD in History from Harvard. She lives outside Boston and is a dedicated equestrian.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TRANSCRIPT:
Nancy Koehn: One of the most interesting and powerful lessons that I discovered in writing this book was that each of these five people — that’s Ernest Shackleton the Antarctic explorer; our sixteenth president Abraham Lincoln; the abolitionist and civil liberties crusader Frederick Douglass; the resistor to Nazi Germany’s evils Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor; and the environmental activist Rachel Carson, discover that sometimes doing nothing is the most powerful, the most significant, the most influential thing a leader can do.
And they discover that mostly by making mistakes, by acting quickly, decisively, rashly in a high stakes moment when they are highly charged, when they are emotionally very hot in terms of their temperature, and when people around them are emotionally very hot in terms of their emotional temperatures. They discover the power of waiting, of doing nothing when the stakes are high and emotional temperatures are high. And they discover this lesson because they make the mistake of acting, of writing, of speaking out, of making a decision when they are very, very hot under the collar, right? When their hair on the back of their neck is really on end. And they realize, “This is not my best mode. This is not my strongest self. I can actually do a lot of damage to my mission, my followers, what I’m trying to accomplish if I make choices when I don’t see myself as clearly, when I’m not as temperate and careful and thoughtful and reflective and emotionally aware as I might be.”
And so one of the best examples of this is an example that occurred right after the Battle of Gettysburg. And I tell it in the conclusion to the book. Abraham Lincoln has just learned that the Union Army, commanded by a general named George Meade, has won a decisive battle in three days of bloody fighting in southern Pennsylvania in Gettysburg against Robert ...
For the full transcript, check out https://bigthink.com/videos/nancy-koehn-the-most-important-letter-abraham-lincoln-never-sent
Join me and my daughter on another great adventure. we visit Antioch and Keyser WV. We visit Abraham Lincoln's Mother's birthplace. and 2 famous graves in the area. Please subscribe and like the video. and thanks for all of your support to my channel. feel free to leave comments and suggestions of other things you would like to see. And enjoy this week's blog.
This article reflects the prevailing theories regarding Nancy Hanks Lincoln's heritage. There is information, however, published about the Shipley and Berry family and for Kentucky heritage sites that differs from the prevailing theory. This is explored in greater detail in the Nancy Hanks Lincoln heritage article.
Early life and education
Nancy Hanks Lincoln was born to Lucy Hanks in what was at that time part of Hampshire County, Virginia. Today, the same location is in Antioch in Mineral County, West Virginia. Years after her birth, Abraham Lincoln's law partner William Herndon reported that Lincoln told him his maternal grandfather was "a well-bred Virginia farmer or planter."
According to William E. Barton in the "Life of Abraham Lincoln" and Michael Burkhimer in "100 Essential Lincoln Books", Nancy was most likely born illegitimate due to the fact that Hanks' family created stories in order to lead Abraham to believe he was a legitimate member of the Sparrow family.
[There were countless skirmishes on the Great Lakes between ships and boats of all makes and sizes during the War of 1812-14. "Well", Stan said, "we won the damned war but from some of the accounts you'd really have to wonder how!"] The clothes men wear do give them airs, the fellows do compare. A colonel's regimentals shine, and women call them fair. I am Alexander MacIntosh, a nephew to the Laird And I do distain men who are vain, the men with powdered hair. I command the Nancy Schooner from the Moy on Lake St. Claire. On the third day of October, boys, I did set sail from there. To the garrison at Amherstburg I quickly would repair With Captain Maxwell and his wife and kids and powdered hair. Aboard the Nancy In regimentals bright. Aboard the Nancy With all his pomp and bluster there, aboard the Nancy-o. Below the St. Clair rapids I sent scouts unto the shore To ask a friendly Whyandot to say what lay before. "Amherstburg has fallen, with the same for you in store! And militia sent to take you there, fifty horse or more." Up spoke Captain Maxwell then, "Surrender, now, I say! Give them your Nancy schooner and make off without delay! Set me ashore, I do implore. I will not die this way!" Says I, "You go, or get below, for I'll be on my way!" Aboard the Nancy! "Surrender, Hell!" I say. Aboard the Nancy "It's back to Mackinac I'll fight, aboard the Nancy-o." Well up comes Colonel Beaubien, then, who shouts as he comes near. "Surrender up your schooner and I swear you've naught to fear. We've got your Captain Maxwell, sir, so spare yourself his tears." Says I, "I'll not but send you shot to buzz about your ears." Well, they fired as we hove anchor, boys, and we got under way, But scarce a dozen broadsides, boys, the Nancy they did pay Before the business sickened them. They bravely ran away. All sail we made, and reached the Lake before the close of day. Aboard the Nancy! We sent them shot and cheers. Aboard the Nancy! We watched them running through the trees, aboard the Nancy-o. Oh, military gentlemen, they bluster, roar and pray. Nine sailors and the Nancy, boys, made fifty run away. The powder in their hair that day was powder sent their way By poor and ragged sailor men, who swore that they would stay. Aboard the Nancy! Six pence and found a day Aboard the Nancy!