This Week in History July 23, 1856 Lincoln gives a political speech from the balcony of the DeSoto House in Galena, Illinois. July 24, 1858 Lincoln writes to Stephen A. Douglas, challenging him to a series of public debates. July 26, 1926 Robert Lincoln, only surviving son of President and Mrs. Lincoln, dies in Vermont at age 82. 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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