. Abraham Lincoln and men of war-times : some personal recollections of war and politics during the Lincoln administration ; with introduction by Dr. Lambdin. ver would have beenserious discord between them. It was the creation ofwhat I believe to be McClellans entirely unwarranteddistrust of Lincolns personal and official fidelity to himas a military commander, and that single error became aseething cauldron of woe to both of them and a consum-ing misfortune to McClellan. Lincolns position in history is secure, but it is doubt-ful whether the impartial historian of the future will giveMc
. Abraham Lincoln and men of war-times : some personal recollections of war and politics during the Lincoln administration ; with introduction by Dr. Lambdin. ver would have beenserious discord between them. It was the creation ofwhat I believe to be McClellans entirely unwarranteddistrust of Lincolns personal and official fidelity to himas a military commander, and that single error became aseething cauldron of woe to both of them and a consum-ing misfortune to McClellan. Lincolns position in history is secure, but it is doubt-ful whether the impartial historian of the future will giveMcClellan his full measure of justice. History recordsresults—only achievements and failures. It will tell ofMcClellan that he was an unsuccessful military chieftain,and that on his own record in an appeal to the countryhe was the most overwhelmingly defeated candidate forPresident in the history of the present great parties ofthe nation; but no truthful historian can fail to say ofhim that he was one of the great military geniuses of hisday, one of the purest of patriots, and one of the mostloyal of men in the great battle for the preservation ofthe (Photo by Sarony, New York.) GENERAI. WILLIAM T. SHERMAN. LINCOLN AND SHERMAN. ABRAHAM LINCOLN and William T. Sherman had?l\ never met until Sherman came to Washington tovisit his brother, the present Senator Sherman, ten daysafter Lincolns inauguration. Shermans mission to thecapital was not to obtain a command. He had resignedas president of a military institute in Louisiana, because,as he frankly said to the State officials who controlledthe institution, he could not remain and Owe allegianceto a State that had withdrawn from the Union. In hisletter of resignation, dated January i8, 1861, he said: Should Louisiana withdraw from the Federal Union, Iprefer to maintain my allegiance to the Constitution aslong as a fragment of it sur\dves, and m} longer stayhere would be a wTong in every sense of the left New Orleans
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