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So much of professional military skill is requisite to answer it , that I have turned the task over to General Halleck . He promises to perform it with his utmost care . I have but one idea which I think worth suggesting to you ...
So much of professional military skill is requisite to answer it , that I have turned the task over to General Halleck . He promises to perform it with his utmost care . I have but one idea which I think worth suggesting to you ...
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He is rising in military skill and usefulness . His recent appointment to the command of a corps by one so competent to judge as General Sherman proves this . In that line he can serve both the country and himself more profitably than ...
He is rising in military skill and usefulness . His recent appointment to the command of a corps by one so competent to judge as General Sherman proves this . In that line he can serve both the country and himself more profitably than ...
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More than a year of trial now shows no loss by it in our foreign relations , none in our home popular sentiment , none in our white military force - no loss by it anyhow or anywhere . On the contrary it shows a gain of quite a hundred ...
More than a year of trial now shows no loss by it in our foreign relations , none in our home popular sentiment , none in our white military force - no loss by it anyhow or anywhere . On the contrary it shows a gain of quite a hundred ...
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Contents
POSTMASTER LAWYER REPRESENTATIVE OF | 1 |
To William H Herndon | 16 |
To John W Crisfield | 121 |
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| Title | The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches |
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| Editor | H. Jack Lang |
| Publisher | World Publishing Company, 1941 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 20 Jan 2010 |
| Length | 265 pages |
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