. Abraham Lincoln and men of war-times : some personal recollections of war and politics during the Lincoln administration ; with introduction by Dr. Lambdin. men I have met, he was the most difficultto analyze. His characteristics were more original, morediversified, more intense in a sober way, and yet moreflexible under many circumstances, than I have everseen in any other. Many have attempted to portrayLincolns characteristics, and not a few have assumedto do it with great confidence. Those who have spokenmost confidently of their knowledge of his personalqualities are, as a rule, tho
. Abraham Lincoln and men of war-times : some personal recollections of war and politics during the Lincoln administration ; with introduction by Dr. Lambdin. men I have met, he was the most difficultto analyze. His characteristics were more original, morediversified, more intense in a sober way, and yet moreflexible under many circumstances, than I have everseen in any other. Many have attempted to portrayLincolns characteristics, and not a few have assumedto do it with great confidence. Those who have spokenmost confidently of their knowledge of his personalqualities are, as a rule, those who saw least of thembelow the surface. He might have been seen every dayduring his Presidential term without ever reaching thedistinctive qualities which animated and guided him,and thus hundreds of writers have assumed that theyunderstood him when they had never seen the inner in-spirations of the man at all. He was a stranger to deceit,incapable of dissembling; seemed to be the frankest andfreest of conversationalists, and yet few understood himeven reasonably well, and none but Lincoln ever thor-oughly understood Lincoln, If I had seen less of him 64. (Photo by Gutekunst, Philadelphia.) ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND HIS SON TAD. LINCOLNS CHARACTERTSTICS. 65 I might have ventured with much greater confidence toattempt a portra}al of his individuality, but I saw himmany times when Presidential honors were forgotten inPresidential sorrows, and when his great heart throbbedupon his sleeve. It was then that his uncommon quali-ties made themselves lustrous and often startled and con-fused his closest friends. I regard Lincoln as very widely misunderstood in oneof the most important attributes of his character. It hasbeen common, during the last twenty-five years, to seepublications relating to Lincoln from men who assumedthat they enjoyed his full confidence. In most and per-haps all cases the writers belie\-ed what they stated, butthose who assumed to speak most confidently on the sub-
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