Life on the Circuit with Lincoln: With Sketches of Generals Grant, Sherman and McClellan, Judge Davis, Leonard Swett, and Other Contemporaries"Originally commenced as a pastime, and to please a circle of friends alone, success, in any degree, can only be hoped for, because of my vantage ground as an intimate and close friend of Mr. Lincoln, and because, by reason of such intimacy, of the novelty of some of the facts and deductions, and not, in any sense, by reason, but in spite of, its literary style or, rather, the lack thereof."--Preface. |
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... army discipline - were usually unmerited -and while bringing gladness to one family circle , doubtless carried sorrow , ultimately , to many . The responsible officers complained that his humanity greatly interfered with the discipline ...
... army discipline - were usually unmerited -and while bringing gladness to one family circle , doubtless carried sorrow , ultimately , to many . The responsible officers complained that his humanity greatly interfered with the discipline ...
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... army is at Martinsburg and the tail of it on the plank road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville , the animal must be very slim somewhere . Could you not break him ? ” He used to tell of a youth who emigrated from New York to the ...
... army is at Martinsburg and the tail of it on the plank road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville , the animal must be very slim somewhere . Could you not break him ? ” He used to tell of a youth who emigrated from New York to the ...
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... army , which , though brief , and achieved chiefly as a student , ob- server , author and chronicler , was withal , renowned and os- tentatious , and invested its possessor with high prestige and great popularity in the army . His ...
... army , which , though brief , and achieved chiefly as a student , ob- server , author and chronicler , was withal , renowned and os- tentatious , and invested its possessor with high prestige and great popularity in the army . His ...
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... army secret he had learned there . I happen to recollect he once told me that , on a future day named by him , our army would move on Munson's Hill ; and it proved to be true - the army moved when he predicted . This man had held office ...
... army secret he had learned there . I happen to recollect he once told me that , on a future day named by him , our army would move on Munson's Hill ; and it proved to be true - the army moved when he predicted . This man had held office ...
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... Army needed a Grant , Sherman or Thomas . Those who are familar with West Point and its work- ings are also aware that it engenders the most contemptible aristocracy in this country . The profession of arms is allur- ing to youth and ...
... Army needed a Grant , Sherman or Thomas . Those who are familar with West Point and its work- ings are also aware that it engenders the most contemptible aristocracy in this country . The profession of arms is allur- ing to youth and ...
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Page 281 - Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with his eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment...
Page 568 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 208 - Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South.
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Page 312 - This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.
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Page 468 - Their breath is agitation, and their life A storm whereon they ride, to sink at last, And yet so nursed and bigoted to strife, That should their days surviving perils past, • Melt to calm twilight, they feel overcast With sorrow and supineness, and so die ; Even as a flame unfed, which runs to waste With its own flickering, or a sword laid by Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously.
Page 350 - seem to be pursuing," as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the National authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be
Page 464 - I SAW him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through Mie town.