In a crowded Chicago courtroom on Sept. 22, 1857, a tall and eerily thin Abraham Lincoln rose to address a jury in the case involving the Effie Afton steamboat and the Rock Island-to-Davenport…
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In a crowded Chicago courtroom on Sept. 22, 1857, a tall and eerily thin Abraham Lincoln rose to address a jury in the case involving the Effie Afton steamboat and the Rock Island-to-Davenport…