. Life and public services of Edwin M. Stanton . !?! I! :;! iiiliii l|!l I, 1 ;t i. BOSTON AND NEW YORKHOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY 1899 COPTKIGHT, 1899, BY LEWIS H. STANTONALL RIGHTS RESERVED PKEFACE Although this book contains a sketch of Mr. Stan-tons early life, his professional career, and his generalcharacteristics, its main purpose is to present the recordof his relation to the civil war, and to mark the placein history to which his services to the country entitlehim. His public life embraced the secession winter of1860-61, three years of the civil war, —1862-65, —and three years of th
. Life and public services of Edwin M. Stanton . !?! I! :;! iiiliii l|!l I, 1 ;t i. BOSTON AND NEW YORKHOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY 1899 COPTKIGHT, 1899, BY LEWIS H. STANTONALL RIGHTS RESERVED PKEFACE Although this book contains a sketch of Mr. Stan-tons early life, his professional career, and his generalcharacteristics, its main purpose is to present the recordof his relation to the civil war, and to mark the placein history to which his services to the country entitlehim. His public life embraced the secession winter of1860-61, three years of the civil war, —1862-65, —and three years of the reconstruction struggle whichfollowed it. He died in 1869, while yet the passionsof those times were at the highest. The story, there-fore, of his public career is as stormy as the period inwhich he wrought; and his claims upon the respect andgratitude of his countrymen rest chiefly upon the parthe took in the preservation of the Union. It is thirty years since this great American endedhis work; and the country, then torn by faction, anddivided into two warring sections, i
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