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Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 72 8 Browse Search
Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863. 70 6 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 65 19 Browse Search
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House 50 0 Browse Search
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion 44 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: August 17, 1861., [Electronic resource] 42 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. 40 2 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 40 0 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 34 0 Browse Search
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army 33 1 Browse Search
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Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Lxxv. (search)
plied that I might have seen a statement of the kind, but did not suppose it to be true. Well, said Mr. Arnold, we were all young folks together at the time in Springfield. In some way a difficulty occurred between Shields and Lincoln, resulting in a challenge from Shields, which was at length accepted, Mr. Lincoln naming broadsn's second on the occasion! The facts are these. You will bear me witness that there was never a more spirited circle of young folks in one town than lived in Springfield at that period. Shields, you remember, was a great beau. For a bit of amusement one of the young ladies wrote some verses, taking him off sarcastically, whicvered the ground. Entering heartily upon an attempt at pacification, he at length succeeded in mollifying Shields, and the whole party returned harmoniously to Springfield, and thus the matter ended. This version of the affair coming from an eyewitness is undoubtedly in all respects correct. It subsequently came in my way to k
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Lxxvii. (search)
rength,--always ready, always available, never capricious,--the highest possession of the human intellect. But, let me ask, did you prepare for your profession? Oh, yes! I read law, as the phrase is; that is, I became a lawyer's clerk in Springfield, and copied tedious documents, and picked up what I could of law in the intervals of other work. But your question reminds me of a bit of education I had, which I am bound in honesty to mention. In the course of my law-reading, I constantly books of reference I could find, but with no better results. You might as well have defined blue to a blind man. At last I said, Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means; and I left my situation in Springfield, went home to my father's house, and stayed there till I could give any proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight. I then found out what demonstrate means, and went back to my law-studies. I could not refrain from saying, in my admir
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