Lincoln and Douglas arrive in Mattoon, Illinois

09/17/1858

Lincoln and Douglas arrived in Mattoon, Illinois. (By Don Sailer)

Source Citation

Allen C. Guelzo, Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008), 300.

Record Data

Date Certainty

Exact

Type

Campaigns/Elections

Relevance

Personal

Major Topics

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

People

Lincoln, Abraham

Abraham Lincoln, November 8, 1863, detail

Douglas, Stephen Arnold

Places

Mattoon, IL

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