The Life of Abraham Lincoln Volumes 3 & 4Digital Scanning Inc, 1999 - 568 páginas The work here offered the public was begun in 1894 at the suggestion of Mr. S. S. McClure and Mr. J. S. Phillips, editors of "McClure's Magazine." Their desire was to add to our knowledge of Abraham Lincoln by collecting and preserving the reminiscences of such of his contemporaries as were then living. In undertaking the work it was determined to spare neither labor nor money and in this determination Mr. McClure and his associates have never wavered. Without the sympathy, confidence, suggestion, and criticism, which they have given the work it would have been impossible. They established in their editorial rooms what might be called a Lincoln Bureau and from there an organized search was made for reminiscences, pictures, and documents. To facilitate the work, all persons possessing or knowing of Lincoln material were asked through the magazine to communicate with the editor. The response was immediate and amazing. Hundreds of persons from all parts of the country replied. In every case the clues thus obtained were investigated and if the matter was found to be new and useful was secured. The author wrote thousands of letters and traveled thousands of miles in collecting the material, which came to the editor simply as a result of this request in the magazine. The work thus became one in which the whole country cooperated. No attempt has been made to cover the history of Lincoln's times save as necessary in tracing the development of his mind and in illustrating his moral qualities. It is Lincoln the man, as seen by his fellows and revealed by his own acts and words that the author has tried to picture. |
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... March 4 , 1861 found the city of Washing- ton astir . The Senate , which had met at seven o'clock the night before , was still in session ; scores of persons who had come to see the inauguration of the first Republican Presi- dent , and ...
... March 5 , " by no feeble expression . He who runs may read ' it ; and to twenty millions of people it will carry the tidings , good or not , as the case may be , that the Federal Government of the United States is still in existence ...
... ( March 5 ) was a letter from Major Robert Anderson , the officer in command of Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor , saying that he had but a week's provisions , and that if the place was to be re - en- forced so that it could be held , it ...
... March 5 received Anderson's letter . What was to be done ? The garrison must not be allowed to starve ; but evidently 20,000 disciplined men could not be had to relieve it - the whole United States army numbered hut 16,000 . But if Mr ...
... March 1 he sent an order that troops which had been sent to Pensacola in January by Mr. Buchanan , but never landed , should be placed in Fort Pickens . As this order went by sea , it was necessarily some time before it arrived . Night ...
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Lincolns Search for a General | 127 |
Lincoln and the Soldiers | 146 |
Lincolns Reelection in 1864 | 170 |
VOLUME FOUR | |
The End of the War 26 | 26 |
Lincolns Funeral 41 | 41 |