Martin and Abraham Lincoln Author:Catherine Cate Coblentz Based on a true incident during the Civil War. This book tells of a little boy, a son of a cobbler, who is on his way to Washington to buy some much needed items for his family. He misses his Civil War soldier father who has been a prisoner for some time in Andersonville Prison. While in town, he meets Abraham Lincoln. They chat, the boy fixes t... more »he president's shoe, and Lincoln encourages the boy by arranging for food stuffs to be delivered to his mother each week until his father returns home. This is a very endearing story about the compassion and concern of Abraham Lincoln for his men fighting in the Civil War.« less