Lincoln at Richmond: A Dramatic Epos of the Civil WarSigma publishing Company, 1914 - 388 pages |
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Lincoln at Richmond: A Dramatic Epos of the Civil War - War College Series Denton Jaques Snider No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 352 - He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon any political question. Such questions the President holds in his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions. Meantime you are to press to the utmost your military advantages.
Page 352 - President directs me to say to you that he wishes you to have no conference with General Lee, unless it be for the capitulation of General Lee's army, or on some minor and purely military matter. " He instructs me to say that you are not to decide, discuss, or confer upon any political question. Such questions the President holds in his own hands, and will submit them to no military conferences or conventions.
Page 360 - Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.
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Page 359 - His whole appearance, poise and bearing had marvelously changed. He was, in fact, transfigured. That indescribable sadness which had previously seemed to be an adamanteaii element in his very being, had been suddenly exchanged for an equally indescribable expression of serene joy as if conscious that the great purpose of his life had been achieved .... Yet there was no manifestation of exultation, or ecstacy.
Page 361 - Secretary Welles afterward wrote ; " that he seemed to be in a singular and indescribable vessel, but always the same, and that he Was moving with great rapidity toward a dark and indefinite shore...
Page 360 - I can do nothing with Mr. Sumner in these matters. While Mr. Sumner is very cordial with me, he is making his history in an issue with me on this very point. He hopes to succeed in beating the President so as to change this Government from its original form and make it a strong centralized power.
Page 358 - The baby pushed away from me and reached out his hands to Mr. Lincoln, who took him in his arms. As he did so an expression of rapt, almost divine tenderness and love lighted up the sad face. It was a look that I have never seen on any other face.
Page 355 - My lines are broken in three places. Richmond must be evacuated this evening.
Page 362 - ... on the eternal truth of God. As the two men were about to separate, Mr. Bateman remarked : ' I have not supposed that you were accustomed to think so much upon this class of subjects ; certainly your friends generally are ignorant of the sentiments you have expressed to me.