Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Lincoln” in chapter 12 of General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant:
... Union would have been lost.
He was assigned one of the most appalling tasks ever intrusted to a commander.
He did his duty fearlessly to the bitter end, and triumphed.
In thirteen months after Lincoln handed him his commission of lieutenant-general, and intrusted to him the command of the armies, the war was virtually ended.
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