Abraham Lincoln, the boy and the man (1908) (14584077868)

Identifier: abrahamlincol2043morg (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln, the boy and the man
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Morgan, James, 1861-1955
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Grosset & Dunlap
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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ed upon the President to sacrifice him-self if the Union is irrevocably gone, and giveup the needless struggle. Counsels like these,while they did not seem to weaken the purpose ofLincoln, must have heavily taxed his fortitude. Men who pressed about him with conflictingadvice, found him not thinking of the past, but ofthe future. The very day after Bull Run, on theadvice of General Scott and with the enthusiasticapproval of the country, he appointed George B.McClellan to the command of the routed army. McClellan was a brilliant engineer graduate ofWest Point, who had resigned a railway presidencyand surrendered a salary of ten thousand dollarsto enter the military service at the outbreak of thewar. In a series of skirmishes, he had driven scat-tered bands of Confederates out of the mountainsof western Virginia, and secured that region to theUnion. Although, before this brief campaign, he neverhad commanded more than a company of men,or held higher rank than captain, he came to the 216
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From the collection of H. W. Fay, Esq., De Kalb, 111. A Portrait of Lincoln Made in his first year in the White House