‘ [268] themselves no little amount of credit for its success.’ Of this episode Colonel Lamon, the friend and biographer of Lincoln, said: ‘Mr. Lincoln soon learned to regret his midnight ride. His friends reproached him, his enemies taunted him. He was convinced that he had made a grave mistake in yielding to the solicitations of a professional spy and of friends too easily alarmed.’
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