. 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 . ith a word, turnedupon the rebels, and gained one of the most glorious victories of the war. Atthe request of the great tragedian James E. Murdoch, who had interested andinspired the Union troops in many a camp by his patriotic recitations, ThomasBuchanan Read, poet and artist, commemorated this event in a stirring poem,entitled Sheridans Ride. There were many men, unknown at the breakingout of the war. who gained
. 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 . ith a word, turnedupon the rebels, and gained one of the most glorious victories of the war. Atthe request of the great tragedian James E. Murdoch, who had interested andinspired the Union troops in many a camp by his patriotic recitations, ThomasBuchanan Read, poet and artist, commemorated this event in a stirring poem,entitled Sheridans Ride. There were many men, unknown at the breakingout of the war. who gained honor and fame in the Virginia campaigns. Toname them all would take up many a page of this book. Among them was 182 lURAHAM LINCOLN. Joseph Warren Keifer, of Springfield, Ohio, afterward speaker of the nationalHouse of Representatives. He never lost a battle or made a military there were General Garfield, General J. D. Cox, and really a host of others,■whose names are luminous and are dear to the hearts of all patriots. During the summer of 1804, efforts to bring about peace were Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, and the most influential. The central figure of this picture is the president; the one on the right, in uniform, is Gen-eral McClernand, and the gentleman at the left is Allen Pinkerton, the distinguished photograpli was talien at Antietam, on Octolier 3, ISB, when President Lincoln visited thearmy in the held. It is from a negative taken by Brady and Gardner, lor the government. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. journalist of his time, wrote the president as follows: I venture to remind jouthat our bleeding, bankrupt, almost dying country longs for peace, shudders atthe prospect of fresh conscriptions, of further wholesale devastations, and ofnew rivers of human blood, etc. Mr. Greeley asked the president to consent to negotiations looking toward theending of the war. In response, the president announced his willingness tonegotiate
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