This Week in History July 29, 1861 President Lincoln receives a letter from newspaper editor Horace Greeley, urging negotiated peace. August 1, 1843 Abraham and Mary Lincoln's first son, Robert Todd, is born in Springfield, Illinois. August 2, 1826 Lincoln's sister Sarah marries Aaron Grigsby in southern Indiana. 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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