. : [booklet]. GRAND REVIEW OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC BYFrom Life of Lincoln, ttV<£- wi- Conway %gX1xqa C(6raifutftv A mighty chorus this! Lumbermen from the forest, mechanics from the shops,merchants from the stores, students from the schools, lawyers from the courts,ministers from the pulpits, farmers from the land, sailors from the sea, realizingthat life was not the greatest blessing, joined the host and pledged their lives tothe preservation of a government of and for and by the people as they sang,We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more. 16 -^r, ^,-.
. : [booklet]. GRAND REVIEW OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC BYFrom Life of Lincoln, ttV<£- wi- Conway %gX1xqa C(6raifutftv A mighty chorus this! Lumbermen from the forest, mechanics from the shops,merchants from the stores, students from the schools, lawyers from the courts,ministers from the pulpits, farmers from the land, sailors from the sea, realizingthat life was not the greatest blessing, joined the host and pledged their lives tothe preservation of a government of and for and by the people as they sang,We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more. 16 -^r, ^,;,jf,^. PRESIDENT LINCOLN, AT FALMOUTH, VA., IN APRIL by Doubleday, Page & Co. I&/U& kli\i,cLlbcl tkotUACCKcL Tfl\b\<iJ One of the sons of Father Abraham, present at this review, wrote, We hadno eyes save for our revered President, the Commander-in-chief. We passed closeto him, so that he could look into our faces and we into his. None of us to our dying-days can forget that countenance ! Concentrated in that one great, strong yet tenderface, the agony of the life or death struggle of the hour was revealed as we hadnever seen it before. With new understanding we knew why we were soldiers. 17
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