This Week in History October 21, 1861 Senator Edward D. Baker, close friend of the Lincoln family, is killed at the battle of Ball's Bluff, Virginia. October 23, 1847 Lincoln leases his home in Springfield, Illinois to Cornelius Ludlum before leaving to take his seat in Congress. October 25, 1841 Lincoln buys land in Coles County, Illinois from his father and stepmother, giving them use of it for their lifetime. Today in Lincoln's Life Lincoln's Words "The struggle of today, is not altogether for today -- it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence, all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us." --Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1861

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