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Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Xxviii. (search)
Xxviii.
In Barrett's biography of Mr. Lincoln, it is stated that the first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation was written on board of the steamboat returning from his 8th of July visit to the army at Harrison's Landing.
This circumstance was not included in the statement given me, and to others in my presence, at different times; but from the known relations of the author with the President, it is undoubtedly true.
The original draft was written upon one side of four half sheets of official foolscap.
He flung down upon the table one day for me, several sheets of the same, saying, There, I believe, is some of the very paper which was used; if not, it was, at any rate, just like it.
The original draft is dated September 22d, 1863, and was presented to the Army Relief Bazaar, at Albany, N. Y., in 1864.
It is in the proper handwriting of Mr. Lincoln, excepting two interlineations in pencil, by Secretary Seward, and the formal heading and ending, which were written by the ch
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Lxviii. (search)
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Index. (search)
Index.
A.
Adams, J. Q., 211.
Alley, Hon. J. B., 119.
All-noise Story.
212.
Amnesty Proclamation, 98.
Andersonville, 177.
Apparition, 164.
Arnold, Hon. I. N., 150, 237, 302.
Ashley, Hon. Mr., 151.
Ashmun, Hon., George, 284-286.
Assassination, 63.
B.
Baker, G. E., 127.
Baldwin, Judge, (Cal.,) 245.
Baltimore Convention, 162.
Barrett, Hon. J. H., 86, 254.
Bateman, Newton, 192.
Bates, Attorney-General, 55.
Battle, Fair Oaks, 139.
Beecher, Henry Ward, 135, 230.
Bellows, Rev. Dr., 81, 274.
Bible Presentation, 199.
Bingham, Hon. John A., 234.
Blair, Hon. M., 21, 46, 88.
Booth, Edwin, 49.
Bowen, H. C., 221.
Brady, M. B., 46.
Braine, Lieutenant, 94.
Brooks, Noah, 63, 165, 188, 235.
Bulletin, (San Francisco,) 223.
Burnside, 81.
C.
Cabinet Meeting, 55.
Cameron, Secretary, 136-138, 253.
Cannon, Colonel L. B., 115.
Cass, General, 271.
Chase, 21, 84, 85, 86, 88-90, 180, 218, 223; letter to Stanton, 180.
Cheever, Rev. Dr., 14