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<date value='1847-11-03'>Wednesday, November 3, 1847.</date>
<place key='38.0333, -84.5000' teiForm='name'>Lexington, KY</place>.</dateline>
<p> [During their stay the Lincolns probably made trips to nearby places. As
definite information on these trips is not available and as they were probably not
absent overnight, Lexington is given as their location during entire visit.]</p>
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<date value='1847-11-13'>Saturday, November 13, 1847.</date>
<place key='38.0333, -84.5000' teiForm='name'>Lexington, KY</place>.</dateline>
<p> Henry Clay speaks on Mexican War, denouncing it as war of aggression.
Meeting adopts resolutions declaring hostilities occasioned by Taylor's army advancing
into territory under jurisdiction of Mexico. Lincoln undoubtedly attends.<bibl default='NO'>William H. Townsend, <title>Lincoln and
His Wife's Home Town</title> (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1929),
152-55.</bibl>
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<dateRange from='1847-11-25' to='1847-12-01'>November 25,
1847-December 1, 1847.</dateRange>
<place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='38.8833, -77.0333' teiForm='name'>Washington, DC</place>.</dateline>
<p> The Lincolns leave for national capital.<bibl default='NO'>William H. Townsend, <title>Lincoln and His Wife's Home Town</title>
(Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1929), 161.</bibl>
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<p> (They probably travel by stage from Lexington to Winchester, Virginia,
where they could take Winchester and Potomac Railroad to Harpers Ferry. From there they
could take Baltimore and Ohio to Relay Station, Maryland. Thence branch line ran to
Washington.<bibl default='NO'>John W. Starr, <title>Lincoln and the Railroads: A Biographical Study</title> (New York: Dodd, Mead,
1927), 48.</bibl>)</p>
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