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Lincoln Document Traveled With Doomed Donner Party
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Researchers have discovered that a document including Abraham Lincoln's writing from the 1830s traveled with the doomed Donner Party which set out for the West from Springfield in 1846.

The 1832 list of men in an Illinois military company during the Black Hawk War is in the California State Library in Sacramento. Experts recently determined it contains Lincoln's handwriting.

Lincoln served in the Black Hawk War and wrote the title of a July 10 muster roll.

James F. Reed served with Lincoln and set out with the Donner Party in spring 1846, taking along the muster rolls. The party hit a harsh winter in the Sierra Nevada and survivors resorted to cannibalism to survive.

Online: www.papersofabrahamlincoln.org

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