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Latest Light on Abraham Lincoln, and War-Time Memories Volume 2; Including Many Heretofore Unpublished Incidents and Historical Facts Concerning His a by Ervin S Chapman
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Author: Ervin S Chapman
Page Count: 90 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781236248527
File size: 27 Mb
Download Link: Latest Light on Abraham Lincoln, and War-Time Memories Volume 2; Including Many Heretofore Unpublished Incidents and Historical Facts Concerning His a
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...understood by the President, and the assurance received by him from General Hooker, caused him to be illy prepared for the tidings which in due time came, telling of the overwhelming defeat, and humiliating retreat, of the Union forces. By no pen has the majestic demeanor of the President upon that occasion been so graphically depicted as by that of Colonel W. O. Stoddard, one of Mr. Lincoln's private secretaries: General Charles H. T. Collis, The Religion of Abraham Lincoln, p.15. "That night, the last visitors in Lincoln's room were Stanton and Halleck. They went away together in silence, at somewhere near nine o'clock, and the President was left alone. Not another soul was on that floor except the one secretary, who was busy with the mail in his room across the hall from the President's; and the doors of both rooms were ajar, for the night was warm. The silence was so deep that the ticking of a clock would have been noticeable; but another sound came that was almost as regular and ceaseless. It was the tread of the President's feet as he strode slowly back and forth across the chamber in which so many Presidents of the United States had done their work. Was he to be the last of the line? The last President of the entire United States? At that hour that very question had been asked of him by the battle of Chancellorsville. If he had wavered, if he had failed in faith or courage or prompt decision, then the nation, and not the army of the Potomac, would have lost its great battle. "Ten o'clock came, without a break in the steady march, excepting now and then a pause in turning at either wall. "Eleven o'clock came, and then another hour of that ceaseless march so accustomed the ear to it that when, a little COLONEL W. O. STODDARD One of Presi...
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Latest Light on Abraham Lincoln, and War-Time Memories Volume 2; Including Many Heretofore Unpublished Incidents and Historical Facts Concerning His a by Ervin S Chapman
Author: Ervin S Chapman
Page Count: 90 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781236248527
File size: 27 Mb
Download Link: Latest Light on Abraham Lincoln, and War-Time Memories Volume 2; Including Many Heretofore Unpublished Incidents and Historical Facts Concerning His a
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...understood by the President, and the assurance received by him from General Hooker, caused him to be illy prepared for the tidings which in due time came, telling of the overwhelming defeat, and humiliating retreat, of the Union forces. By no pen has the majestic demeanor of the President upon that occasion been so graphically depicted as by that of Colonel W. O. Stoddard, one of Mr. Lincoln's private secretaries: General Charles H. T. Collis, The Religion of Abraham Lincoln, p.15. "That night, the last visitors in Lincoln's room were Stanton and Halleck. They went away together in silence, at somewhere near nine o'clock, and the President was left alone. Not another soul was on that floor except the one secretary, who was busy with the mail in his room across the hall from the President's; and the doors of both rooms were ajar, for the night was warm. The silence was so deep that the ticking of a clock would have been noticeable; but another sound came that was almost as regular and ceaseless. It was the tread of the President's feet as he strode slowly back and forth across the chamber in which so many Presidents of the United States had done their work. Was he to be the last of the line? The last President of the entire United States? At that hour that very question had been asked of him by the battle of Chancellorsville. If he had wavered, if he had failed in faith or courage or prompt decision, then the nation, and not the army of the Potomac, would have lost its great battle. "Ten o'clock came, without a break in the steady march, excepting now and then a pause in turning at either wall. "Eleven o'clock came, and then another hour of that ceaseless march so accustomed the ear to it that when, a little COLONEL W. O. STODDARD One of Presi...
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