Download or read book Why President Lincoln Spared Three Lives written by Isaac Markens and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Why President Lincoln Spared Three Lives Classic Reprint written by Isaac Markens and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Why President Lincoln Spared Three Lives Within the fortress whose defiant flag inspired the lines of Key's immortal national anthem three Confederate spies, awaiting execution in the closing year of the Civil War, were snatched from the gallows by a stroke of President Lincoln's pen. This act of Executive clemency was the sequence to an interesting incident during Mr. Lincoln's journey to Washington to assume the presidency in 1861, when the rampant spirit of secession prevailing in Maryland forbade all preparations for official welcome in that State. Thus it came that the President-elect and his family arranged for a short stop in Baltimore as the guests of a private citizen, John S. Gittings, banker and President of the Northern Central Railroad, by which line he was scheduled to reach that city. As is well known, information of an assassination plot induced Mr. Lincoln to leave his fellow-travelers at Harrisburg, secretly return to Philadelphia by special train, accompanied by a sole companion, Ward H. Lamon, and there board the regular midnight train for Washington, where he arrived unrecognized in the early morning of February 23. Adhering to the original program, the presidential party, including Mrs. Lincoln and her sons, Robert, Willie, and "Tad," went from Harrisburg to Baltimore, where their train was greeted by an immense crowd which rolled in about it like a vast tidal wave. Some of the more unruly element were bold enough to invade Mrs. Lincoln's private car until driven out by John Hay, who locked the door amidst an outburst of oaths and obscenity which swelled in intensity and volume when it became known that Mr. Lincoln was not with the party, but had stolen a march and was already in Washington. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Lincoln the President March 4 1861 to May 3 1865 written by Henry Clay Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol 3 Classic Reprint written by Isaac Newton Arnold and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 3 Lincoln entertained sanguine hopes that Lee's army would never be permitted to recross the Potomac, and its destruction, he believed, would bring the war to a close. It seems to have been quite within the power of General Meade to annihilate the enemy that he had so signally defeated at Gettysburg. He had a much larger force, and abundant supplies. Lee's three days fight had nearly exhansted his ammunition, and when he reached the Potomac he had the swollen waters of that river in his front, with no means of crossing his artillery, and another defeat must have caused the surrender of his whole army. But Meade allowed him to collect lumber from canal boats and ruined wooden houses, to construct- a bridge and cross the river. On the 14th of July, Meade telegraphed to Halleck The enemy are all across the Potomac. It would seem as though Meade thought his duty was performed when he drove the enemy back to Virginia, forgetting that Virginia was as much a part of the republic as Pennsylvania. He displayed so little enterprise that Lee thought it safe to send Longstreet to Tennessee, to the aid of Bragg against Rosecrans. On September roth and zoth, was fought the battle Of Chickamauga, in which the gallant Thomas, commanding the center of Rosecrans's army, firmly withstood and beat back the rebels under Bragg. He did this after the rebels had turned the Union right, and Rosecrans had been driven from the field. Thomas, the loyal Virginian, by his heroism and good conduct on this occasion saved the army and acquired the name of the Rock Of Chickamauga. Garfield, chief of staff Of Rosecrans, especially distinguished himself in this battle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Lincoln Memorial written by Making Of America Project and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Lincoln Memorial: A Record of the Life, Assassination, and Obsequies of the Martyred President The death of President Lincoln and the terrible circum stances attending it, his funeral rites, solemn beyond example in history, and the passage of his honored remains from city to city for thousands of miles, created too deep an impression not to make the scenes and the words Spoken by the great and eloquent in that season matters to be preserved as a record for after time and thought. To meet this feeling, the present Memorial has been com piled. Original matter has been furnished, and the full reports of the press, in all parts of the country, freely used. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book The Life of Abraham Lincoln written by Stefan Lorant and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-14 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life of Abraham Lincoln: A Short, Illustrated Biography A cabin in the Kentucky wilderness; eighteen feet wide, sixteen feet long. The floor, packed - down dirt; sparse light through a solitary window. Opposite the open hearth a bed of cornhusks and bearskins. There, on February 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln first saw the life of this world. The father of the newborn was a carpenter by trade; a stout, thickset man with a round face, swarthy complexion and black hair. Later, when books were written about his famous son, he was sketched as an ever moving, shiftless, good-for-nothing creature. But his record shows nothing of the kind. Thomas Lincoln was sober, hard-working, industrious, not a great suc cess in life, but neither was he a failure. He owned hun dreds of acres of land and he was never without a horse. A tax book in 1814 lists him fifteenth out of ninety eight names in the valuation Of property owners. His forebears came from England. Samuel Lincoln, 3 weaver's apprentice, left the Old Country in 1637, settling in Hingham, Massachusetts. From there the Lincolns spread to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, then westward along the Wilderness Road into Ken tucky. And it was in that state that twenty-eight-year Old Thomas Lincoln married twenty-two - year - Old Nancy Hanks on June 12, 1806. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Lincoln the President written by Henry Clay Whitney and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lincoln the President: Volume Two of a Life of Lincoln Offered him, and cast a wary and critical eye on the political field to ascertain the true policy for the political future of William Henry Seward. For he was nothing if not a politician, and an optimistic one at that, and his hopeful fancy penetrated through the angry and threatening clouds Of secession and civil war, and reveled in the tranquil and serene azure Of reconciliation and peace. Inasmuch as he had been an actor in the stirring era Of 1850 when secession was threatened, but was averted, he hoped for a simi; lar result now. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Life of Lincoln Vol 2 written by Henry C. Whitney and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life of Lincoln, Vol. 2: Lincoln the President Now Lincoln had been elected by a composite vote, and he realized that political expediency, good faith, propriety and Justice all demanded that he should make an eqmtable division of the offices between the two political factors, which, united, had secured his election As soon as his election had been assured, he resolved upon the various members of his Cabinet, so far as his per sonal Wish was concerned, the Administration representing the old parties equally, thus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Lincoln the President March 4 1861 to May 3 1865 written by Henry Clay Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book SOME INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN CLASSIC REPRINT written by WILLIAM A. MOWRY and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lincoln in Portraiture Classic Reprint written by Rufus Rockwell Wilson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lincoln in Portraiture Pagegraphs of him taken at fateful periods of his great career. Three score of these photographs, masks, busts and portraits are here reproduced with such measure of comment and description as each item seems to demand. From the daguerreotype taken at Springfield in 1846, the earliest likeness of Lincoln that has been spared us, down to the photograph for which he sat at Washington on Palm Sunday in 1865, a few days before his death, the plates assembled in this volume, ranging from the hopeful confidence of their subjects early manhood to the tempered and sober self-mastery of his last days, clearly reflect the mental and spiritual development through eventful years of the greatest man of his period and country. One rises from a study of them with new and reverent knowledge of the life and growth which have made Abraham Lincoln's mem ory a part of the proud and precious heritage of every American. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book REMINISCENCES OF THE LAST YEAR OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN S LIFE written by EDWARD D. NEILL and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Birthday of Abraham Lincoln written by Joseph G. Darlington and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Birthday of Abraham Lincoln: Speeches of Joseph G. Darlington, Esq., Hampton L. Carson, Esq., And Marcus a Brownson, D. D., In Response to Toasts at the Annual Dinner at the Union League of Philadelphia, February 13, 1899 From an original negative made in 1864, at the time President Lincoln commissioned Ulysses S. Grant lieutenant-general and Com mander of All the Armies of the Union. It is stated that this negative was made to commemorate that eventerence to our organization to tell you what the Grand Army of the Republic is. It is based upon membership of the armies and navies of the United States during the years 1861 to 1865; and we are proud to say that no man can purchase admission to the organization. It is beyond the reach of any and of all who did not serve with us shoulder to shoulder. We are established upon the great principles of Fraternity, Charity and Loyalty - fraternity to our comrades in arms, now our comrades in peace; charity to those who need assist ance and help; and loyalty to our country. After all, the latter is the noblest of the three. It was loyalty to country that brought us into the service when men were needed for the defence of the flag; it is loyalty to country that is inculcated in our Posts and impressed upon the minds of those who are mustered into our ranks. And it will continue so long as we live, so long as the last man remains alive who offered his life for the country and was saved, through the providence of God, to return home. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Lincoln Group Papers written by Lincoln Group of Chicago and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lincoln Group Papers: Twelve Addresses Delivered Before the Lincoln Group of Chicago on Varied Aspects of Abraham Lincoln's Life and Interests The wide-spread acceptance of Lincoln Group Papers as a worthy and outstanding contribution to Lincolniana has prompted the publication of a Second Series of twelve papers in this volume. That the interest in Lincoln is not confined to one spot in the country is shown by the authors of the papers. Chicago claims four, Peoria two, and one each in places as far apart as los Angeles, Detroit, Muncie, Indiana, Davenport, Iowa, and Petersburg and Danville, Illinois. The subjects discussed are as varied as the homes of the authors. Three papers treat of Lincoln's friends, two intimates, William H. Herndon and Ward H. Lamon, and a young friend who became a great admirer, Robert G. Ingersoll. Two papers treat of important events in Lincoln's life the debates with Douglas in 185 8, and the Gettysburg Address. The religious environment of his boyhood and the intel lectual influences surrounding him immediately after he left the parental roof are discussed in separate papers. Other topics are as varied as his personal finances, rise in politics from 185 4, influence upon the foreign policy of his administration, and the lessons of his life for the youth of today. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Personal Recollections and Impressions of Abraham Lincoln written by Francis Durbin 1846- Blakeslee and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis Durbin Blakeslee, a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, provides readers with a firsthand account of the 16th president's life. This book offers a unique perspective on Lincoln's personal and professional dealings and provides readers with a more intimate glimpse into the man behind the legend. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Lincoln the President written by Abraham Lincoln and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
