The heroic life of Abraham Lincoln the great emancipator Illustrated in black and white and with colored plates . ony or fuss of any kind Lee and Grant met, and the surrender was completed,and the victorious General fed, with Union-Army rations, the well-nigh fam-ished rebel soldiers. The whole North rejoiced with exceeding great joy, not in triumph over afallen foe, but with gratitude that the long, sad, cruel war was over. At Washington, the city made it a general holiday. A great crowd of peo-ple dragged howitzers into the grounds of the White House, and at Lincolnsappearance at the window
The heroic life of Abraham Lincoln the great emancipator Illustrated in black and white and with colored plates . ony or fuss of any kind Lee and Grant met, and the surrender was completed,and the victorious General fed, with Union-Army rations, the well-nigh fam-ished rebel soldiers. The whole North rejoiced with exceeding great joy, not in triumph over afallen foe, but with gratitude that the long, sad, cruel war was over. At Washington, the city made it a general holiday. A great crowd of peo-ple dragged howitzers into the grounds of the White House, and at Lincolnsappearance at the window men threw up their hats and cheered and shouted fora speech. Lincoln raised his hand, and when silence was restored he brushed thetears from, his eyes, and briefly congratulated them on the great and happy re-sult, but said he, Later on there will be a more formal celebration of thismomentous event and then I shall have nothing to say if it is all dribbled outof me now. The people laughed good-humoredly at the homely saying. Lincoln con-cluded by calling for the captured tunc of Dixie, which he said was ours. .*l*»*«™
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