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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... military necessity , and on 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 ...
... military power ? " The way in which the matter presented itself to his mind he stated clearly to Congress , when that body next came together : 66 The assault upon and reduction of Fort Sumter was in no sense a matter of self - defense ...
... military authorities . In its distress , it was to Mr. Lincoln that the city turned . The fiber of the man began to show at once . Bayard Taylor happened to be in Washington at the very beginning of the alarm , and called on the ...
... military company , that our present diffi- culties might be settled without the shedding of blood . I will not say that all hope has yet gone ; but if the alternative is presented whether the Union is to be broken in fragments and the ...
... military maps , on which the posi- tions and movements of the armies were traced . There was an old and discolored engraving of General Jackson on the mantel and a later photograph of John Bright . Doors opened into this room from the ...
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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 |