Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln: By Distinguished Men of His TimeAllen Thorndike Rice W. Blackwood, 1888 - 656 pages Carl W. Schaefer collection. |
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... Sherman and Lincoln - Thurlow Weed- McClellan's Views - McClellan and Lincoln- “ I can trust Phil . " - Emancipation - Lincoln's Cab- inet The Dispatch to Minister Adams ..... I. GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT . Too much Tail - The Dutch Gap ...
... Sherman and Lincoln - Thurlow Weed- McClellan's Views - McClellan and Lincoln- “ I can trust Phil . " - Emancipation - Lincoln's Cab- inet The Dispatch to Minister Adams ..... I. GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT . Too much Tail - The Dutch Gap ...
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... Sherman would come out " The Governor has a Pretty Good Case " - " On to Richmond " -Providence and General McClellan - A Grasp on Truth and Justice ...... PAGES 47-65 67-75 ས . HON . J. P. USHER , EX - SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR ...
... Sherman would come out " The Governor has a Pretty Good Case " - " On to Richmond " -Providence and General McClellan - A Grasp on Truth and Justice ...... PAGES 47-65 67-75 ས . HON . J. P. USHER , EX - SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR ...
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... Sherman , who , like Cæsar in this as in other respects , enjoys a joke even at his own ex- pense , relates a story that illustrates this peculiar- ity . Soon after the battle of Shiloh the President promoted two officers to Major ...
... Sherman , who , like Cæsar in this as in other respects , enjoys a joke even at his own ex- pense , relates a story that illustrates this peculiar- ity . Soon after the battle of Shiloh the President promoted two officers to Major ...
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... Sherman . " General Sherman then recalled the fact that , in the flush of victory , General Grant and himself had both recom- mended these promotions , but that it had escaped his memory at the time of writing his telegraphic dispatch ...
... Sherman . " General Sherman then recalled the fact that , in the flush of victory , General Grant and himself had both recom- mended these promotions , but that it had escaped his memory at the time of writing his telegraphic dispatch ...
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... Sherman , I once asked him if he had ever heard the story that General Grant , at one important crisis , cut the tele- graph wires between Washington and his headquar- ters in order to get rid of civil interference with his military ...
... Sherman , I once asked him if he had ever heard the story that General Grant , at one important crisis , cut the tele- graph wires between Washington and his headquar- ters in order to get rid of civil interference with his military ...
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