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A city in Georgia, United States
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American naval officer known for his heroic deeds in the Tripolitan War, the War of 1812, and skirmishes against the Barbary pirates. City (pop., 2000: 81,860), central Illinois, U.S. Situated on the Sangamon River east of Springfield, it was founded in 1829. In 1860 it was the site of Abraham Lincoln's first endorsement by a party convention for the presidential nomination. It is a commercial centre for the surrounding agricultural region. Industries include the processing of corn and soybeans and the manufacture of tractors and other vehicles
United States naval officer remembered for his heroid deeds (1779-1820)
a town in northern Alabama on the Tennessee River a city in central Illinois; Abraham Lincoln practiced law here United States naval officer remembered for his heroid deeds (1779-1820)
a city in central Illinois; Abraham Lincoln practiced law here
a town in northern Alabama on the Tennessee River

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Daniel Decatur Emmett
born Oct. 29, 1815, Mount Vernon, Ohio, U.S. died June 28, 1904, Mount Vernon U.S. showman and songwriter. The son of an Ohio blacksmith, he joined the army at age 17 as a fifer. In 1843 in New York he helped organize the Virginia Minstrels, one of the earliest minstrel-show troupes. He is credited with writing "Dixie" (1859), a minstrel "walk-around" (concluding number) that became the Confederacy's unofficial national anthem. His other songs include "Old Dan Tucker" and "Blue-Tail Fly." He also wrote banjo tunes and music instruction manuals
Stephen Decatur
born Jan. 5, 1779, Sinepuxent, Md., U.S. died March 22, 1820, Bladensburg, Md. U.S. naval officer. He entered the navy in 1798. In the Tripolitan War, he led a daring expedition into the harbour of Tripoli to burn a captured U.S. ship. In the War of 1812 he commanded the USS United States and captured the British ship Macedonian. In 1815 he commanded a squadron in the Mediterranean that forced a peace with the Barbary states on U.S. terms. At a banquet on his return he gave a toast that included the words "Our country, right or wrong." In the same year he was made a navy commissioner, an office he held until he was killed in a duel