. Men and things I saw in civil war days . on Grant and Lee, admitting thegreatness of both, but demonstrating the superiority ofGrant as a soldier, are unique but unanswerable. Andhis graphic Letters Home every Sunday during the war,fresh from the march and the battlefield, are vivid andinspiring. Every collegian and high school boy should read thisbook, and profit by its great lessons of duty and patriot-ism. Buy and see! Pages, 420. Price, $; by mail,$ With 14 illustrations. 6 CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE Abraham Lincoln 9 CHAPTER Johnson 19 CHAPTER B. McClellan 24
. Men and things I saw in civil war days . on Grant and Lee, admitting thegreatness of both, but demonstrating the superiority ofGrant as a soldier, are unique but unanswerable. Andhis graphic Letters Home every Sunday during the war,fresh from the march and the battlefield, are vivid andinspiring. Every collegian and high school boy should read thisbook, and profit by its great lessons of duty and patriot-ism. Buy and see! Pages, 420. Price, $; by mail,$ With 14 illustrations. 6 CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE Abraham Lincoln 9 CHAPTER Johnson 19 CHAPTER B. McClellan 24 CHAPTER E. Burnside 41 CHAPTER Hooker 52 CHAPTER G. Meade 67 CHAPTER H. Thomas 80 CHAPTER Tecumseh Sherman 106 CHAPTER H. Sheridan 123 CHAPTER S. Grant 135 CHAPTER E. Lee 149 CHAPTER and Soldiering 159 CHAPTER Great Quartermaster 174 CHAPTER Angel of the Third Corps 190 CHAPTER Army Letters 195 APPENDIX 355 INDEX 3r 7. Abraham Lincoln, J 863. MEN AND THINGS I SAW IN CIVIL WAR DAYS CHAPTER IAbraham Lincoln My first knowledge of Mr. Lincoln was in 1857, whenhe dawned upon the nation as The Rail-splitter of Illi-nois. This was when he was nominated there forUnited States Senator, and conducted his great debatewith Stephen A. Douglas, then widely known as TheLittle Giant of IlHnois. Mr. Lincoln struck me then,in the progress of that debate, as a really great Amer-ican: sagacious, far-seeing, and with a broad grasp ofprinciples. And I was still more impressed with this ini860, \\d;jen he became the Republican nominee for Pres-identyftnd won as Honest Old Abe. My first real sight of him w^as in February, 1861, whenhe came East, and halted at Trenton, N. J., en route toWashington, D. C, to be inaugurated. I was then re-siding in Trenton, a practicing lawyer, as now. I stoodwithin a few feet of him, in our State House there, whenhe significantly said, in the course
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