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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... House their headquarters . " There were days , " says William O. Stoddard , “ when the throng of eager applicants for office filled the broad stair- case to its lower steps ; the corridors of the first floor ; the famous East room ; the ...
... House reporting the progress of the attack and Anderson's heroic defense , but there was nothing official . By evening , however , there was no doubt that Fort Sumter was being reduced . Mr. Lincoln was already formulating his plan of ...
... House , were no longer in his country . They belonged to the enemy . With the news of the secession of Virginia , there reached Washington on Thursday , April 18 , a rumor that a large Confederate force was marching on the city . Now ...
... House , and Clay's Battalion at Willard's Hotel , which had been stripped of its guests in a night . The confusion and alarm of the city was greatly increased on Friday by news received from Baltimore . The Sixth Massachusetts , en ...
... House , with the Baltimore and Ohio to the west ; at Baltimore , with the only two lines then entering that city from the North , one from Harrisburg , the other from Philadelphia . On Fri- day , April 19 , after the attack on the Sixth ...
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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 |