Why We Love LincolnOuting Publishing Company, 1909 - 168 pages |
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Page 147
... peace . Then , and then only , Lincoln considered unconditional emancipation as an act of war in defence of the Union and as a means of peace . Thirty - four years afterwards General Longstreet , one of the most distinguished soldiers ...
... peace . Then , and then only , Lincoln considered unconditional emancipation as an act of war in defence of the Union and as a means of peace . Thirty - four years afterwards General Longstreet , one of the most distinguished soldiers ...
Page 166
... peace negotiations by writing to the officious editor : " If you can find any person anywhere professing to have any proposition of Jeffer- son Davis in writing , for peace , embracing the restoration of the Union and abandon- ment of ...
... peace negotiations by writing to the officious editor : " If you can find any person anywhere professing to have any proposition of Jeffer- son Davis in writing , for peace , embracing the restoration of the Union and abandon- ment of ...
Page 167
... peace came in the surrender at Appomattox , to be followed by his own bloody death at the hands of a fanatic . Those who saw him on the day of his sec- ond inauguration say that he was thinner and more wrinkled than ever . His face had ...
... peace came in the surrender at Appomattox , to be followed by his own bloody death at the hands of a fanatic . Those who saw him on the day of his sec- ond inauguration say that he was thinner and more wrinkled than ever . His face had ...
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