Lovejoy Martyr To Freedom

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Very interesting, Gene. I knew the name and his abolitionist views, but little else.

Another book to mention (and this one is new): For one of AussieMick's tricky trivia questions recently, I gave a wrong answer -- Henry Villard, a young journalist who chronicled Lincoln's political path from Springfield to Washington City.

Michael Burlingame has now edited a compendium of Villard's dispatches and it has been published by Southern Illinois University Press; 424 pp., cloth bound, $45.50.