. Abraham Lincoln and men of war-times : some personal recollections of war and politics during the Lincoln administration ; with introduction by Dr. Lambdin. -, and efforts. The closest men to Abraham Lincoln, both before andafter his election to the Presidency, were David Davis,. 4 PREFACE. Leonard Swett, Ward H. Ivamon, and William H. Hern-don, Davis and Swett were his close personal andpolitical counselors; L-amon was his Marshal for Wash-ington and Herndon had been his law-partner for twentyyears. These men, who knew Mr. Lincoln better thanall others, unite in testifying that his ext
. Abraham Lincoln and men of war-times : some personal recollections of war and politics during the Lincoln administration ; with introduction by Dr. Lambdin. -, and efforts. The closest men to Abraham Lincoln, both before andafter his election to the Presidency, were David Davis,. 4 PREFACE. Leonard Swett, Ward H. Ivamon, and William H. Hern-don, Davis and Swett were his close personal andpolitical counselors; L-amon was his Marshal for Wash-ington and Herndon had been his law-partner for twentyyears. These men, who knew Mr. Lincoln better thanall others, unite in testifying that his extreme cautionprevented him from making a personal confidant of anyone; and my own more limited intercourse with himtaught me, in the early period of our acquaintance, thatthose who assumed that they enjoyed Lincolns confi-dence had little knowledge of the man. It is the gen-erally honest but mistaken belief of confidential relationswith Lincoln on the part of biographers and magazineand newspaper writers that has presented him to thepublic in such a confusion of attitudes and as possessingsuch strangely contradictory individual qualities. I saw Mr. Lincoln many times during his Presidentialterm, and, like all of the many others who had intimaterelations with him, I enjoyed his co
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