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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... friends , who his enemies , he could not tell ; but he did know that almost every one of them was waiting with painful eagerness to hear what answer he would make there to the questions they had been hurling at his head since his ...
... friends can make laws ? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced be- tween aliens than laws can among friends ? Suppose you go to war , you cannot fight always ; and when , after much loss on both sides , and no gain on either , you ...
... friends . We must not be enemies . Though passion may have strained , it must not break our bonds of affection . The mystic chords of memory , stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all ...
... friends of the Union , emboldened its adversaries , and gone far to insure to the latter a recognition abroad ; in fact , it would have been our national destruction consummated . This could not be al- lowed . In his dilemma he sought ...
... friends besides the members of the Cabinet being present . The conversation was animated , and Lincoln was seemingly in excellent spirits . W. H. Russell , the correspondent of the London " Times , " was present , and he notes in his ...
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Lincolns Search for a General | 127 |
Lincoln and the Soldiers | 146 |
Lincolns Reelection in 1864 | 170 |
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The End of the War 26 | 26 |
Lincolns Funeral 41 | 41 |