Unveiled documents from the online auction site eBay include invoices and shipping receipts for items purchased by the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. These documents reveal an unexpected interest in the emerging field of fossil fuels during his presidency..
**Lincoln’s Fossil Fuel Purchases**.
The invoices and receipts detail several purchases made by Lincoln between 1861 and 1865, coinciding with the height of the American Civil War. Among the items purchased were:.
* Oil-bearing shale samples from Pennsylvania.
* Coal specimens from Illinois.
* Geological maps of oil-rich regions.
* A subscription to the scientific journal .
