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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... appoint- ments forthwith , leaving foreign or general ones for ulterior and occasional action . Fifth . The policy at home . I am aware that my views are singular , and perhaps not sufficiently explained . My system is built upon this ...
... appointed to the position . A month later , when West Virginia had decided to stay with the Union and Eastern Virginia had decided to coerce her to remain with the South , McClellan , who had been put in charge of the Ohio troops as his ...
... appointment Lincoln made be- fore McClellan was that of John C. Fremont to the command of the Department of the West . Republicans appreciated it , for had not Fremont been the first candidate of their party for the Presidency ? The ...
... appointment of General Hunter to his place , he directed that it was not to be delivered if there was any evidence that Fremont had fought , or was about to fight , a battle . It was not only Lincoln's sense of justice which led him to ...
... appointment to the Cabinet , however , had not been made , like Seward's , because of his eminent fitness . It was the one case in which a bargain had been made before the nomina- tion . This bargain was not struck by Mr. Lincoln , but ...
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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 |