Book/Printed Material Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton.
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Image 1 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. 058444 II LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 00001745025
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 4 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton.
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 5 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. Military ©fder of taoyal be|ion OF THE United States. \V ✓Jv COMMA]\lDEI\Y of THE DI^T^IClT OF COLUIV|BIA. \V *A WAR PAPERS. 8 3k 5 braham H arid ^dw iri jvr 3 tauten.…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 7 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. 5Umtltam Lincoln amt ddumt Canton, 1861-1865. Commander and Companions What I may say on this oc¬ casion, I fear, will not prove more than an echo. The remark is applicable to many…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 8 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. 4 efforts for emancipation and abolition, words of despair from Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and others, and recited how the enslavement of the African resulted in a storm, adding: The storm rose to…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 9 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. 5 found in many a home mothers, children, affections, hopes, not to be counted by dollars. He found in the National Treasury a table worth $1.50, and three chairs worth $1 and…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 10 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. 6 debt, expend millions for pensions, and support an army costing yearly $30,000,000. That is to say, we have lost by not having an available force to prevent rebellion $3,963,159,- 75*-i5- Early…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 11 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. 7 flict and absolutely- without the essentials to engage in war— without guns, powder, saltpetre, bullets, and other needed stores. In the recruitment of that powerful force, and its sub¬ sequent great…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 12 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. 8 of, or interference with, property, or any disturbance of peace¬ ful citizens in any part of the country. When the President took this first decided action against the rebellion, the danger…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 13 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. 9 May 3, the President deemed it indispensably necessary to further augment the forces by 42,034 three-year volunteers (39 regiments of infantry and r of cavalry) and 22,714 officers and enlisted men,…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 14 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. IO any one said it would require 2,678,697 enlistments from first to last, and an increase of the volunteer forces, in service at one time, to 1,034,064, in order that armed resistance…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 15 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. II January i, 1863, the volunteer forces numbered 892,728; January 1, 1864, that number had been reduced to 836,101 but on January 1, 1865, it had been increased to 937,441, and on…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 16 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. 12 the call of July iS, 1864. All this at a time when the Army of the Potomac, alone, required So,000 recruits to fill its organiza¬ tions to the maximum—some 400,000 would…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 17 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. 1 3 clothing, and equipping were so great that the services of thou¬ sands were declined. Could arms, clothing, and equipage have been secured, it is safe to say that 1,000,000 of…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 18 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. 14 regiments and 1 battalion, mustered, clothed, armed, equipped, and ready for transportation to the field. On May 24, 22 days from the date of rendezvous, the 42 regiments embracing the force…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 19 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. *5 A battle fought for the interests of the human race, felt 4 even, where they were not understood; so that the tutelary angel of man, when he traverses such a dreadful…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 20 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. I 16 present and absent) from the rendezvous, near Washington, on May 29, and about six weeks thereafter (July 19) the last regiment started for home. During the interval the work, like…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 21 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. !7 A greater eulogy was won by the magnificent volunteer army of the United States, aggregating more than 1,000,000 men—a force more than twenty times the size of that referred to by…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 22 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. i8 where, early in February, Wilmington was captured. March 22, when the right wing of Sherman’s army reached Golds¬ boro, it found there the corps, which a short time prior had been…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 23 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. x 9 making the aggregate of the movements 887,240—embracing independently of recruits 495 regiments and 119 batteries and companies. The following year the aggregate was 1,064,080, distributed to 1,126 regiments, 241 batteries,…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 24 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. 20 Military Railroads. The President, by the act of January i, 1S62 (General Order No. 10, Adjutant-General’s Office of that year), was authorized to take military possession of all the railroads in…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 25 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. clays after Hood left the line trains were running over the entire length. Numerous other wonderful efforts are of record, but the fore¬ going are sufficient to illustrate the speed with which…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 26 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. 22 tive thereto Stanton has said “I know of no operation con¬ nected with the recruitment of the army which has resulted in more advantage to the service than the one referred…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 27 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. 23 Good and wholesome rations were uniformly supplied by the Subsistence Department, and there was not a campaign, expe¬ dition, or movement that failed on account of the inability of the department…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 28 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. 24 The ability and efficiency of its officers were notably i 11 us trated in the construction of the pontoon bridge (exclusive of 200 feet of trestle-work) over 2,000 feet long—the main…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 29 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. 25 Again, the late Brigadier-General Myer, as Chief Signal Officer, has said The officers of the Signal Corps opened the first direct com¬ munication from the Upper to the Lower Mississippi, when…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 30 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. 26 It will be pertinent here to recall the episode connected with the Sherman-Johnson convention, of April 18, 1865. Prior to that convention, or agreement, President Lincoln said—April 3—to General Grant that…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 31 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. 2 7 To a private soldier I have known him to give audience when his leisure was so pressed as to cause an interview with officers of high rank to be refused,…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 32 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. 28 the view that self-preservation was paramount to all other considerations, that before him justice, at times, seemed power¬ less, and personal rights passed for trifles. As to the trials of his…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 33 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. 29 Cameron said of Stanton in June, 1S78 “He was a great, big, brave, loyal man perhaps too harsh and quick-tempered in his treatment of those around him, but, nevertheless, a thoroughly…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 34 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. 30 Stanton’s genius as a ruler and organizer, and ability to reach grand results with vigor and masterly skill, are found in the public archives, endurably recorded. Lincoln. It was a frequent…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 35 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. 3i sonville, Florida. I see the enemy are driving at them fiercely, as is to be expected. u It is important to the enemy that such a force shall not take shape,…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 36 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. 32 after her interment, has pointed to Lincoln’s faith in the un¬ seen, hope in immortality, and love of the beauty of holiness.” Hallam, when writting of Charlemagne, and the epoch made…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 37 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. 33 entile session of the Cabinet his manner and words mani¬ fested, emphatically, a desire to restore a satisfactory peace to the South, through all due regard for her vanquished citi¬ zens.…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 38 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. 34 the fiist in consequence of his mortal wound, from which his life’s blood was oozing, were the sobbing, grief-stricken wife, all the members of the Cabinet save Mr. Seward, and others…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 39 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. 35 service did not die in vain they, and the myriads of nameless martyrs, and he, the chief martyr, gave up their lives willingly 4 that government of the people, by the…
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892
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Image 40 of Abraham Lincoln and Edwin M. Stanton. 5 54 jy
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Vincent, Thomas M. (Thomas Maccurdy)
- Date: 1892