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Excerpt from Fifty Years' Recollections
Fayette City, or Cookstown, owing to the great predominance of Southern sympathizers residing there at that period, which marked the closing scenes of the great rebellion, was called Little Richmond.
Loyal hearts were few. The terms Abolitionist and Lincoln ite were applied with hatred to the few loyal unionists who were brave enough to express their endorsement of the policies of the great emancipator, Abraham Lincoln, and the perpetuation of the union.
About eight o'clock in the evening of the day above mentioned, a loyal, dyed-in-the-wool republican citizen met a life long friend on Main Street and proudly said to him, There is another abolitionist down at our house, but he arrived just one hour too late to vote for Lincoln. That loyal republican was my father, and the abolitionist referred to was myself. In honor of the event, and of the great man who was on that day elected for the second time as President of the United States, I was christened Arthur Abraham Lincoln Faulkner.
In spite of the lengthy appellation, and the ills and accidents inci dent to life's early advancement, I grew into a curly haired child, my mother's joy, my father's pride and, being the youngest of ten chil dren, the household pet. That fact must not be regarded as intended in extenuation of any future follies or misdeeds which may become a part of this story, as I shall attempt to truthfully depict the most important occurrences in my life without regard to fear of criticism or hope of commendation.
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