Identifier: abrahamlincolnba02newy (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century 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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st and the frayWith deep-eyed thought and more than mortal ken.A power was his beyond the touch of artOr armed strength : It was his mighty heart. E. W. Gilder. THE QUESTIONER OF THE SPHINX. BEHOLD me ! with swift foot across the land,Where desert winds are sleeping, I am comeTo wrest a secret from thee; O thou, dumb,And careless of my puny lips command. Cold orbs! mine eyes a weary world have scanned.Slow ear! in mine rings ever a vexed humOf sobs and strife. Of joy, mine earthly sumIs buried as thy form in burning sand. The wisdom of the nations thou hast heard; The circling courses of the stars hast known.Awake ! Thrill! By my feverish presence stirred, Open thy lips to still my human moan, Breathe forth one glorious and mysterious word,Though I should stand, in turn, transfixed,— a stone! M. Virginia Donaghe. HOOKERS APPOINTMENT AND REMOVAL. BY AN OFFICER WHO OCCUPIED RESPONSIBLE AND CONFIDENTIAL POSITIONS AT THEHEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, AND IN THE WAR DEPARTMENT.
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THEN, after theMud Marchthat succeededthe disaster ofFredericks-burg, GeneralBurnside, in afit of humilia-tion, telegraph-ed to Washing-ton requesting,for the secondtime, to berelieved, thequestion of hissuccessor wasalready beingconsidered asa probability.Though stungby the loud roarthat went up forMcClellan fromthe army thathad twice metdisaster afterparting withhim, the cabinet were not shaken in the con-clusion that McClellan must not be restored,for the jocund Seward, equally with the patientLincoln, drew the line at a military dictator-ship, such as would be practically implied by asecond restoration, under such pressure. Butwhile firm, the authorities were circumspect,and concluded that it would not be prudentto increase the tension between themselvesand a possible pretorian camp by sending anoutsider to take the command from Burn-side. Subject to this conclusion, GeneralHalleck and Secretary Stanton favored thetransfer of Rosecrans, for whom McClellanmight be expected to pass

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