The story-life of Lincoln; a biography composed of five hundred true stories told by Abraham Lincoln and his friends . ythe Secretary of War not to allow any news from Fredericksburg tobe transmitted without previous submission to and special approvalby him. But there was time to send it by special messenger on thenight train, which was done. It may as well be mentioned here thatmy account met the same fate as that of the first battle of Bull had stated in it as strongly as possible that the Army of thePotomac had suffered another great, general defeat; that an inex-cusable, murderous bl
The story-life of Lincoln; a biography composed of five hundred true stories told by Abraham Lincoln and his friends . ythe Secretary of War not to allow any news from Fredericksburg tobe transmitted without previous submission to and special approvalby him. But there was time to send it by special messenger on thenight train, which was done. It may as well be mentioned here thatmy account met the same fate as that of the first battle of Bull had stated in it as strongly as possible that the Army of thePotomac had suffered another great, general defeat; that an inex-cusable, murderous blunder had been made in attempting to over-come the enemy by direct attack; and that the Union cause wasthreatened by the greatest disaster yet suffered, in consequence ofthe perilous situation in which the defeat left the army. The editorwas afraid to let the Tribune solely assume the whole responsibilityfor what would no doubt prove a great shock to the loyal public,lest I might be mistaken in my opinion, and, accordingly the reportwas very much modified, but was printed as an extra issue the fol-lowing THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION 487 My duty being thus fully discharged, I went to Willards Hotelfor my supper. At the entrance I met Senator Henry Wilson ofMassachusetts. He . . surmised that I was from the front, andgreeted me with the questions: Have you come from the army? What is the news? Havewe won the fight? I answered: Senator, you know whatever news I have be-longs to my paper, but, for the sake of the cause, I will tell you in
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