Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War YearsReader's Digest Association, 1970 - 640 pages |
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Page 245
... McClellan . Slowly too the im- pression grew in some circles that McClellan was interfered with too much by Stanton , by War Of- fice bureaucrats , by the suspicious antislavery radicals . Browning asked Lincoln if he still had con ...
... McClellan . Slowly too the im- pression grew in some circles that McClellan was interfered with too much by Stanton , by War Of- fice bureaucrats , by the suspicious antislavery radicals . Browning asked Lincoln if he still had con ...
Page 253
... McClellan re- newed his calls on the War Department and the President for more men and guns . Also he con- tinued , with some of his generals , an undimin- ished political activity . Long letters passed between McClellan and Lincoln on ...
... McClellan re- newed his calls on the War Department and the President for more men and guns . Also he con- tinued , with some of his generals , an undimin- ished political activity . Long letters passed between McClellan and Lincoln on ...
Page 278
... McClellan , sixth from the left , faces the President , who stands with his hand resting on the back of a chair , dominating the scene . Directly to the left of Lincoln stands Captain ( later General ) George A. Custer . The fourth man ...
... McClellan , sixth from the left , faces the President , who stands with his hand resting on the back of a chair , dominating the scene . Directly to the left of Lincoln stands Captain ( later General ) George A. Custer . The fourth man ...
Contents
Wilderness Beginnings | 17 |
New Salem Days | 33 |
The Young Legislator | 49 |
Copyright | |
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