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Title: Abraham Lincoln and men of war-times : some personal recollections of war and politics during the Lincoln administration ; with introduction by Dr. A.C. Lambdin
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: McClure, Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly), 1828-1909
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: Philadelphia : Times Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ng with a single detective in it. Lincolnand Lamon entered the carriage and Kenney mountedthe box with the driver. They were in advance of thetime for the starting of the Baltimore train, and theywere driven around on Broad street, as the driver wasinfonued, in search of some one wanted by Kenney andthe detective, until it was time to reach the station. 50 LINCOLN AND MEN OF WAR-TIMES. When there they entered by the public doorway onBroad street, and passed directly along with other pas-sengers to the car, where their berths had been engaged.The journey to Washington was entirely uneventful, andat six in the morning the train entered the Washingtonstation on schedule time. Seward had been advised, bythe return of his son from Philadelphia, of the probableexecution of this programme, and he and Washburnewere in the station and met the President and his party,and all drove together to Willards Hotel. Thus endsthe story of Lincolns midnight journey from Harrisburgto the National Capital.
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(Photo by Brady, Washington.) IvIEUT.-GENERAL WINFIELD SCOTT. LINCOLNS SORE TRIALS ABRAHAM LINCOLN arrived in Washington on the-tx. 23d of February, 1861, to accept the most appallingresponsibilities ever cast upon any civil ruler of moderntimes. If he could have commanded the hearty confi-dence and co-operation of the leaders of his own party,his task would have been greatly lessened, but it is dueto the truth of history to say that few, very few, of theRepublican leaders of national fame had faith in Lin-colns ability for the trust assigned to him. I couldname a dozen men, now idols of the nation, whose opendistrust of Lincoln not only seriously embarrassed, butgrievously pained and humiliated, him. They felt thatthe wrong man had been elected to the Presidency, andonly their modesty prevented them, in each case, fromnaming the man who should have been chosen in hisstead. Looking now over the names most illustrious inthe Republican councils, I can hardly recall one who en-couraged L

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