...aloud, and Lincoln, his face ashy gray in hue and his eyes streaming with tears, finally ejaculated : " My God ! my God ! what will the country say? What will the country say?" He refused to be comforted, for his grief was great. Within an hour, amidst a pouring rain, Lincoln, accompanied...

...encamped " in its former position. The appearance of the President, as I read aloud these fateful words, was piteous. Never, as long as I knew him, did he...consoled him as best I could, and while we were talking and trying to find a gleam of sunshine in this frightful darkness, I saw a carriage drive up to the...

...trembling voice was piteous. Never as long as I knew him did he seem to be so broken, so disspirited, and so ghostlike. Clasping his hands behind his back,...will the country say! What will the country say!' One day at Fortress Monroe he said to an army officer: "Colonel did you ever dream of a lost friend,...

...aloud these fateful words, was piteous. Never, as long as I knew him, did he seem to be so broken up, so dispirited, and so ghostlike. Clasping his hands...what will the country say ! What will the country say ! ' " This consternation was soon mastered. Lincoln's almost superhuman faculty of putting disaster...

...aloud these fateful words, was piteous. Never, as long as I knew him, did he seem to be so broken up, so dispirited, and so ghostlike. Clasping his hands...what will the country say ! What will the country say ! ' " This consternation was soon mastered. Lincoln's almost superhuman faculty of putting disaster...

...aloud, and Lincoln, his face ashy gray in hue and his eyes streaming with tears, finally ejaculated : " My God ! my God ! what will the country say ? What will the country say ? " He refused to be comforted, for his grief was great. The wildest rumors flew around the capital ; the...

...face went ghastly grey, and, with hands clasped behind his back, he paced the floor, saying piteously: "My God! My God! What will the country say! What will the country say!" But he put all this behind him, and fixed his sad eyes, sinking deeper and deeper into their caverns,...

...emotion said: 'Read it.' Never as long as I knew him did he seem to be so broken up, so dispirited, so ghostlike. Clasping his hands behind his back,...will the country say? What will the country say?'" That night was an agonizing one for Lincoln. His secretary, working across the hall, heard the tread...

...had retreated from the south side of the Rappahannock, with hands clasped behind his back, "Lincoln walked up and down the room, saying, 'My God, my God,...what will the country say ! What will the country say !' " The man of large political knowledge, able as a constitutional lawyer, kindly in spirit and philosophical...

...aloud, and Lincoln, his face ashy gray in hue and his eyes streaming with tears, finally ejaculated : 'My God ! My God ! what will the country say? What will the country say?' He refused to be comforted, for his grief was great." Writing in 1867, after a period of reflection, General...