[Footnote A:  The story of Lincoln’s first seventeen months in Illinois, outlined in this paragraph, is told in MCCLURE’S magazine for December.]

[Footnote B:  This story of Kirkpatrick’s unfair treatment of Lincoln we owe to the courtesy of Colonel Clark E. Carr of Galesburg, Illinois, to whom it was told several times by Greene himself.]

[Footnote C:  William Cullen Bryant, who was in Illinois in 1832 at the time of the Black Hawk War, used to tell of meeting in his travels in the State a company of Illinois volunteers, commanded by a “raw youth” of “quaint and pleasant” speech, and of learning afterwards that this captain was Abraham Lincoln.  As Lincoln’s captaincy ended on May 27th, and Mr. Bryant did not reach Jacksonville, Illinois, until June 12th, and as the nearest point he came to the army was Pleasant Grove, eight miles from Pekin on the Illinois River, and that was at a time when the body of Rangers to which Lincoln belonged was fifty miles away on the rapids of the Illinois, it is evident that the “raw youth” could not have been Lincoln, much as one would like to believe that it was.  See “Life of William Cullen Bryant,” by Parke Godwin, vol. i. page 283.  Also Prose of William Cullen Bryant, edited by Parke Godwin, vol. ii. page 20.]

[Footnote D:  See Wisconsin Historical Collections, vol. x., for Major Anderson’s reminiscences of the Black Hawk War.]

[Footnote E:  Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Noah Brooks.]

[Footnote F:  There were many prominent Americans in the Black Hawk War, with some of whom Lincoln became acquainted.  Among the best known were General Robert Anderson; Colonel Zachary Taylor; General Scott, afterwards candidate for President, and Lieut.-General; Henry Dodge, Governor of the Territory of Wisconsin and United States Senator; Hon. William L.D.  Ewing and Hon. Sidney Breese, both United States Senators from Illinois; William S. Hamilton, a son of Alexander Hamilton; Colonel Nathan Boone, son of Daniel Boone; Lieutenant Albert Sydney Johnston, afterwards a Confederate general.  Jefferson Davis was not in the war, as has been so often stated.]

[Footnote G:  In the New Salem precinct, at the August election of 1832, exactly three hundred votes were cast.  Of these Lincoln received 277.  The facts upon this point are here stated for the first time.  The biographers as a rule have agreed that Lincoln received all of the votes cast in the New Salem precinct except three.  Mr. Herndon places the total vote at 208; Nicolay and Hay, at 277; and Mr. Lincoln himself, in his autobiography, has said that he received all but seven of a total of 277 votes, basing his statement, no doubt, upon memory.  An examination of the official poll-book in the County Clerk’s office at Springfield shows that all of these figures are erroneous.  The fact remains, however—­and it is a fact which has been commented upon by several of the biographers as showing