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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... never expected to ex- perience such a sense of mortification and shame in my own country as I felt to - day , in entering the Capitol through hedges of marines armed to the teeth . . . . Fortu- nately , all passed off well , but it is ...
... never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension . Indeed , the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection . It is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now ...
... never take deliberately , that ob- ject will be frustrated by taking time ; but no good object can be frustrated by it . Such of you as are now dissatisfied , still have the old Constitution unimpaired , and , on the sen- sitive point ...
... never take deliberately , that object will be frustrated by taking time ; but no good object can be frustrated by it . Such of you as are now dissatisfied , still have the old Constitution unimpaired , and , on the sensitive point , the ...
... never landed , should be placed in Fort Pickens . As this order went by sea , it was necessarily some time before it arrived . Night and day during this interval Lin- coln was busy in a series of original investigations of 16 LIFE OF ...
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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 |