Latest Light on Abraham Lincoln, and War-time Memories: Including Many Heretofore Unpublished Incidents and Historical Facts Concerning His Ancestry, Boyhood, Family, Religion, Public Life, Trials and Triumphs, Volume 1Fleming H. Revell Company, 1917 - 570 pages |
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... secure the manuscript from Doctor Gurley's daughter , Mrs. Emma Gurley Adams of Washington , D. C. , and I heartily commend it to the reader . A considerable portion of this work is devoted to the cor- rection of errors . No man in ...
... secure the manuscript from Doctor Gurley's daughter , Mrs. Emma Gurley Adams of Washington , D. C. , and I heartily commend it to the reader . A considerable portion of this work is devoted to the cor- rection of errors . No man in ...
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... secure the permission which he must have and for which Mr. Lincoln was unwilling to make request . Or more prob- ably , the President had confidential understanding with his army commanders by which he could make known to them his ...
... secure the permission which he must have and for which Mr. Lincoln was unwilling to make request . Or more prob- ably , the President had confidential understanding with his army commanders by which he could make known to them his ...
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... secure from the Confederate chieftain , even if he declined his overtures for peace , a declaration that upon no condition save the indepen- dence of the South would any terms of peace be accepted . Such a declaration from Mr. Davis ...
... secure from the Confederate chieftain , even if he declined his overtures for peace , a declaration that upon no condition save the indepen- dence of the South would any terms of peace be accepted . Such a declaration from Mr. Davis ...
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... secure such action of the Chicago Democratic Convention as would accomplish the result for which they were striving . In his " Southern History of the War , " E. A. Pollard , an ardent Confederate , says : " No doubt can rest in history ...
... secure such action of the Chicago Democratic Convention as would accomplish the result for which they were striving . In his " Southern History of the War , " E. A. Pollard , an ardent Confederate , says : " No doubt can rest in history ...
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... secure peace by negotiation . This utterly untruthful claim was urged by those peace leaders with very great vigor and enthusiasm , and was given a marvelous degree of credence by a constantly increas- ing number of loyal people in the ...
... secure peace by negotiation . This utterly untruthful claim was urged by those peace leaders with very great vigor and enthusiasm , and was given a marvelous degree of credence by a constantly increas- ing number of loyal people in the ...
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