Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life. Showing the Inner Growth, Special Training, and Peculiar Fitness of the Man for His Work |
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... McClellan . CHAPTER XXXV . NEW NATIONAL LIFE , . · A Shattered Idol - A New State - Contraband of War - Transitions and Pro- cesses - Lincoln a Dictator - The Law of Revolution . CHAPTER XXXVI . PRESIDENT AND GENERAL ; The Army of the ...
... McClellan . CHAPTER XXXV . NEW NATIONAL LIFE , . · A Shattered Idol - A New State - Contraband of War - Transitions and Pro- cesses - Lincoln a Dictator - The Law of Revolution . CHAPTER XXXVI . PRESIDENT AND GENERAL ; The Army of the ...
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... McClellan , Mr. Lincoln was able to say of an order he had given and was defending : " I ordered . . . on the unanimous opinion of every military man I could get an opinion from , and every ... modern military book , —yourself only ...
... McClellan , Mr. Lincoln was able to say of an order he had given and was defending : " I ordered . . . on the unanimous opinion of every military man I could get an opinion from , and every ... modern military book , —yourself only ...
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... McClellan . When Congress adjourned on the 6th of August , 1861 , there was a strong feeling in the minds of its membership , and throughout the country among all men , that to " the Govern- ment , " meaning by that word , very ...
... McClellan . When Congress adjourned on the 6th of August , 1861 , there was a strong feeling in the minds of its membership , and throughout the country among all men , that to " the Govern- ment , " meaning by that word , very ...
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... McClellan , an accomplished officer , favorably known as a mili- tary scholar and writer , and also , to the country generally , by reason of the successes achieved by the troops under his com- mand in West Virginia , which were then ...
... McClellan , an accomplished officer , favorably known as a mili- tary scholar and writer , and also , to the country generally , by reason of the successes achieved by the troops under his com- mand in West Virginia , which were then ...
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... McClellan happened to be in the city . The President's course and personal relations with him for a time were , as nearly as might be , those of a confiding and familiar friend . The entire mass of the written correspond- ence between ...
... McClellan happened to be in the city . The President's course and personal relations with him for a time were , as nearly as might be , those of a confiding and familiar friend . The entire mass of the written correspond- ence between ...
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