The Life of Abraham Lincoln Volumes 3 & 4Digital Scanning Inc, 1999 - 568 pages 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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... appointment of some indifferent lawyer to a place of judicial importance , " says Mr. Russell . " The President interposed with , Come now , Bates , he's not half as bad as you think . Besides that , I must tell you he did me a good ...
... appoint Governor Houston a major- general in the United States army in case he would accept . It authorized him to take full command in Texas , taking charge of all Government property and such of the old army as he could get together ...
... appointments until actu- ally inaugurated . " I have made up my mind , " he said to a visitor a few days after his election , " not to be badgered about these places . I have promised nothing high or low , and will not . By - and- by ...
... appoint over the heads of his advisers . He preferred to win their consent to an appointment by tact rather than to make it by his own power . A case in point is disclosed in a letter he wrote to General Scott , in June , in which he ...
... appoint post- masters , struck him forcibly . " What is the matter , Mr. Lin- coln , " said a friend one day , when he saw him looking par- ticularly grave and dispirited . Has anything gone wrong at the front ? " 66 " No , " said the ...
Contents
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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 |