Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War YearsThis biography is drawn from the six volume work on Lincoln and new research uncovered since the original publication. |
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... President could not have seen or assented to . The President replied that it was Seward's habit to read the dispatches to him before they were sent , but they were not usually submitted to a Cabinet meeting . He did not recol- lect the ...
... President could not have seen or assented to . The President replied that it was Seward's habit to read the dispatches to him before they were sent , but they were not usually submitted to a Cabinet meeting . He did not recol- lect the ...
Page 336
... PRESIDENT : Yes . The Senators left the White House . One of them , Trumbull , turned be- fore going out , walked rapidly back to the President , and told him rather hotly that the Secretary of the Treasury had talked in a different ...
... PRESIDENT : Yes . The Senators left the White House . One of them , Trumbull , turned be- fore going out , walked rapidly back to the President , and told him rather hotly that the Secretary of the Treasury had talked in a different ...
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... President must name a new Chief Justice . Spheres of influence formed and sought to have Lincoln name Montgomery Blair , Bates , Fessenden , Salmon P. Chase or some other one . And Lincoln was to hear them and to wait and to consider ...
... President must name a new Chief Justice . Spheres of influence formed and sought to have Lincoln name Montgomery Blair , Bates , Fessenden , Salmon P. Chase or some other one . And Lincoln was to hear them and to wait and to consider ...
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Wilderness Beginnings | 3 |
New Salem Days | 22 |
The Young Legislator | 40 |
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