During his momentous U.S. Senate campaign against Stephen A. Douglas, Abraham Lincoln sat for a photograph in Illinois.
By JOHN O’CONNOR, The Associated Press
The tale provides an unlikely, ghastly background to the original 1858 ambrotype created during the future nation-saving Civil War president’s ascendancy, an image which thehas added to its collection, officials said this week. Lincoln’s celebrity was on the upswing when he arrived on Sept. 30, 1858, in Pittsfield, about 110 miles northwest of St. Louis. He had completed four of his seven headline-grabbing debates with Douglas, whose view that the introduction of slavery into new territories should be up to local voters had drawn Lincoln, a former one-term congressman, back into politics.
On a second test, Lame was ramming the powder charge when sparks from Scanland’s torch inadvertently ignited it and the cannon fired, severely burning Lame’s face and sending the ramrod through his arm before it penetrated a tree a block away.
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