. Life of Abraham Lincoln : being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination ; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to Lincoln . oth ways. To this Jefferson Davis re-plied, fFe are not fighting forslavery: ive are fighting for inde-pendence. Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Sewardmet Alexander H. Stephens Feb-ruary 3,1865, on the River Queen,at Fortress Monroe. Stephenswas enveloped in overcoats andshawls, and had the appearanceof a fair-sized man. He began to take off one wrapping after another, until the small, shriveled old man stoodbefore them. Linco


. Life of Abraham Lincoln : being a biography of his life from his birth to his assassination ; also a record of his ancestors, and a collection of anecdotes attributed to Lincoln . oth ways. To this Jefferson Davis re-plied, fFe are not fighting forslavery: ive are fighting for inde-pendence. Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Sewardmet Alexander H. Stephens Feb-ruary 3,1865, on the River Queen,at Fortress Monroe. Stephenswas enveloped in overcoats andshawls, and had the appearanceof a fair-sized man. He began to take off one wrapping after another, until the small, shriveled old man stoodbefore them. Lincoln quietly raid to Seward, This is the largest shucking forso small a nubbin that I ever saw. R. M. T. Hunter was with Mr. Stephens. Lincoln had a friendly conference, but presented his ultimatum—that the oneand only condition of peace was that Confederates must cease their resistance. In the fall of 1864 and the winter of 1865, Grant was pressing in upon andaround the center of the Confederacy, Petersburg and Richmond, and poundingaway with ponderous blows. A mine was exploded under one of the Petersburgforts, July 30th, but with little influence in favor of the EDWIN HI. STANTON.


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