The heroic life of Abraham Lincoln the great emancipator Illustrated in black and white and with colored plates . g and the fall of Vicksburg were taken as harbingers ofcoming peace. In October Grant assumed command of the Army of the Mississippi withSheridan and Sherman in subordinate commands. The battles of MissionaryRidge, Lookout Mountain and Chattanooga followed. Burnside was shut upin Tennessee, and great fear was felt on his account. When one day the longsilence was broken by an urgent call for succor, Lincoln, relieved to find thatBurnside was still safe, said it reminded him of a wom
The heroic life of Abraham Lincoln the great emancipator Illustrated in black and white and with colored plates . g and the fall of Vicksburg were taken as harbingers ofcoming peace. In October Grant assumed command of the Army of the Mississippi withSheridan and Sherman in subordinate commands. The battles of MissionaryRidge, Lookout Mountain and Chattanooga followed. Burnside was shut upin Tennessee, and great fear was felt on his account. When one day the longsilence was broken by an urgent call for succor, Lincoln, relieved to find thatBurnside was still safe, said it reminded him of a woman who lived in a forest-clearing in Indiana in which some of her children were continually being she heard a squawl from one of them in the distance, although she knewthat the child was in danger, perhaps frightened by a rattlesnake, she wouldsa\, Thank (iod ! theres one of my young ones thats not lost. Sherman relieved Burnside, the Confederates under Longstreet weredriven back into Virginia, and Tennessee was delivered from the last attemptof the Confederacy to hold the State. ABRAHAM LINCOLN 37. **te- Lincoln in Richmond at the of the War FOR A SECOND TERM I DO not think it is wise to swap horses while crossing a stream, Lincohthad said to a friend, respecting his nomination for a second term, and indeedthere seemed no one so ehgible or capable as Lincohi at this crisis. An important event of the winter was the appointment of General Grantto the rank of Lieutenant-General, a grade which had originally been createdfor General Washington, and had been held onlj^ by him. It was restored byCongress with the understandinaf that it was intended to honor General Grant. 38 THE HEROIC LH^E OF Grant had been summoned to Washington to receive his commission, andhad been the lion at the Presidents reception, and when it was known that thehero of Vicksburg was in the room, every one crowded to see the General,When he bade- good-night to the President, he said, This is a
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