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William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik 650 0 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History 172 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 156 0 Browse Search
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House 154 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 78 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 68 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 64 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 62 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 52 0 Browse Search
William Boynton, Sherman's Historical Raid 50 0 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Efforts for Reconstruction in April, 1865. (search)
mporary account of what took place between Pres. Lincoln and myself. You know we sent for memberm. On the following day, 14 April, 1865, Mr. Lincoln was assassinated. You and myself, througomote order; and it by further alleged that Mr. Lincoln's memorandum as furnished by yourself suppowas in presence of General Weitzel. I told Mr. Lincoln that I had no commission from the Confederame were absent, others engrossed. We met Mr. Lincoln on the Malvern (gun boat) in James River. Gand asked the question directly of Gen. XV. Mr. Lincoln could not have employed the language he didaving no public significance or relations. Mr. Lincoln did not fully credit the judgment that was ive for concealment nor interest in abusing Mr. Lincoln's confidence. My letter to Gen. Weitzel prevery word that Mr. Lincoln spoke to me and Mr. Lincoln wrote him, not to myself. He had intercour party. There was no explicit condition in Mr. Lincoln's letter to Gen. Weitzel. Mr, Lincoln auth[23 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.34 (search)
those days! We were hundreds of miles from home and without the means of reaching home, surrounded by late foes, uncertain what the future would bring at our homes. If there, poverty stared us in the face and we did not know where to look, except to Him who doeth all things well, in whose hands are all of our destinies, who plants His footsteps on the sea and rides upon the storm. I was an original secessionist, and revolutionist. Rather, I gave my heart and hand to the cause, and when Lincoln's proclamation for troops to assist in coercing North Carolina was issued, I volunteered at once and went to the United States forts in North Carolina by order of the Governor. I was among the first men who placed hostile feet on United States soil in North Carolina, and from that day, April 15, 1861, to the end of the war in 1865, when Lee surrendered the army, I was in the field and in forts exposed to danger, risking my life for a cause I thought was right. With the same lights before