The life of Abraham Lincoln, drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished . m. LINCOLN EARLY IN 1861. From photograph in the collection of H. W. Fay of De Kalb, Illinois, taken prob-ably in Springfield early in 1861. It is supposed to have been the first, or at leastone of the first, portraits made of Mr. Lincoln after he began to wear a beard. Asis well known, his face was smooth until about the end of 1^60; when he first al-lowed his beard to grow, it became a topic of newspaper comment, and even ofi aricature. THE BEGINNING OF CIVIL W
The life of Abraham Lincoln, drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished . m. LINCOLN EARLY IN 1861. From photograph in the collection of H. W. Fay of De Kalb, Illinois, taken prob-ably in Springfield early in 1861. It is supposed to have been the first, or at leastone of the first, portraits made of Mr. Lincoln after he began to wear a beard. Asis well known, his face was smooth until about the end of 1^60; when he first al-lowed his beard to grow, it became a topic of newspaper comment, and even ofi aricature. THE BEGINNING OF CIVIL WAR 41 necessary than to defend Washington. When, on April 15,Mr. Lincoln called for 75,000 men for three months, he hadcommanded the persons disturbing the public peace to dis-perse and retire peacefully to their respective abodes withintwenty days from date. In reply the South had marched on his Capital, cutting itoff from all communication with the North for nearly a week,and had so threatened Harpers Ferry and Norfolk that toprevent the arsenal and shipyards from falling into the handsof the enemy, the Federal commanders had d
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