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Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, XXXV. (search)
followed closely upon this, suggested by a remark made by myself. It was an account of how the President and Secretary of War received the news of the capture of Norfolk, early in the war. Chase and Stanton, said Mr. Lincoln, had accompanied me to Fortress Monroe. While we were there, an expedition was fitted out for an attack on Norfolk. Chase and General Wool disappeared about the time we began to look for tidings of the result, and after vainly waiting their return till late in the evening, Stanton and I concluded to retire. My room was on the second floor of the Commandant's house, and Stanton's was below. The night was very warm, the moon shining bp at Stanton's door and tell him to get up, and come up-stairs. A moment afterward they entered my room. No time for ceremony, Mr. President, said General Wool; Norfolk is ours! Stanton here burst in, just out of bed, clad in a long nightgown, which nearly swept the floor, his ear catching, as he crossed the threshold, Wool's la
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Xxxviii. (search)
, by Mr. Lincoln, of his own accord, referring to, and quoting several lines from his poem entitled Parrhasius. In the spring of 1862, the President spent several days at Fortress Monroe, awaiting military operations upon the Peninsula. As a portion of the Cabinet were with him, that was temporarily the seat of government, and he bore with him constantly the burden of public affairs. His favorite diversion was reading Shakspeare. One day (it chanced to be the day before the capture of Norfolk) as he sat reading alone, he called to his aide Colonel Le Grand B. Cannon, of General Wool's staff. in the adjoining room,--You have been writing long enough, Colonel; come in here; I want to read you a passage in Hamlet. He read the discussion on ambition between Hamlet and his courtiers, and the soliloquy, in which conscience debates of a future state. This was followed by passages from MacBETHeth. Then opening to King John, he read from the third act the passage in which Constan
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Lix. (search)
and wept and laughed,exclaiming, through their blinding tears: God bless you! God bless Abraham Lincoln! God bress Massa Linkum! Those who witnessed this scene will not soon forget it. For a long distance down the Avenue, on my way home, I heard fast young men cursing the President for this act; but all the way the refrain rang in my ears,--God bless Abraham Lincoln! Miss Betsey Canedy, of Fall River, Massachusetts, while engaged in teaching a school among the colored people of Norfolk, Virginia, had in her school-room a plaster bust of the President. One day she called some colored carpenters who were at work on the building, and showed it to them, writing down their remarks, some of which were as follows:-- He's brought us safe through the Red sea. He looks as deep as the sea himself. He's king of the United States. He ought to be king of all the world. We must all pray to the Lord to carry him safe through, for it ‘pears like he's got everything hitched to him. Th
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Lxviii. (search)
a rule in my life not to cross Fox River till I get to it! And, added Mr. Lincoln, I am not going to worry myself over the slavery question till I get to it. General Garfield, of Ohio, received from the President an account of the capture of Norfolk, similar to that recorded on a previous page, with the following preface:-- By the way, Garfield, said Mr. Lincoln, you never heard, did you, that Chase, Stanton, and I, had a campaign of our own? We went down to Fortress Monroe in Chase's revenue cutter, and consulted with Admiral Goldsborough as to the feasibility of taking Norfolk by landing on the north shore and making a march of eight miles. The Admiral said, very positively, there was no landing on that shore, and we should have to double the cape and approach the place from the south side, which would be a long and difficult journey. I thereupon asked him if he had ever tried to find a landing, and he replied that he had not. Now, said I, Admiral, that reminds me of a c
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Index. (search)
84; closing sentence, 89; promised his God, &c., 90; his matured judgment upon the act of Emancipation, 90; simplicity and humility, 95; his first dollar, 96; Amnesty Proclamation, interview with Hon. Robert Dale Owen, 98; account of capture of Norfolk, 104, 240; exhausted patience illustrated; 106, 108; wounded Marylander, 109; as surveyor, 111; new clothes, 113; axes, 118, 289; never read a novel, 114; interview with Rev. Dr. Vinton, 117; telegram to friends at Chicago Convention, 120; riller, Hon. S. F., 174. Mills, Judge J. T., ( Wis.,) 305. Mix, Captain, 261. Moody, Colonel, 102. Morgan, John, 259. Morgan, Senator, 74. Murtagh, Mr., (Washington,) 321. N. Nasby papers, 151. Newspapers, 154. Nicolay, 149. Norfolk, (capture,) 104, 240. Novels, 115. O. Odell, Hon. M. F., 170, 178. Oh why should the spirit of mortal be proud? (Poem,) 60. Owen, Robert Dale, 98. P. Pardon applications, 40, 43, 132, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176,250, 296, 29