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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... taken pains to inquire what means had been provided for protecting his life while in the build- ing , he would have been told that squads of riflemen were in each wing ; that under the platform from which he was to speak were fifty or ...
... taken against the long - threatened at- tack on Lincoln's life produced various impressions on the throng . Opponents scornfully insisted that the new Ad- ministration was " scared . " Radical Republicans rejoiced . " I was thoroughly ...
... taken by the President " before he enters on the execution of his office . " I do not consider it necessary at present for me to say more than I have , in relation to those matters of administration , about which there is no special ...
... taken and held was considered a declaration of war . At Montgomery the head of the Con- federacy , the universal feeling provoked by the inaugural was that war was inevitable . The literary form of the document aroused general com- ment ...
... taken to the White House by his friend Postmaster - General Blair , and gives the following account of what occurred at the inter- view . It is one of the very few descriptions of Mr. Lincoln in a Cabinet meeting which we have : I was taken ...
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 |