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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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John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter IV (search)
provost-marshal. In compliance with the Secretary's instructions, I issued an order, on September 11, providing for the action above stated, and no further. These instructions from the Secretary of War were subsequently repudiated by President Lincoln; but in the meantime they produced serious evil under my successor, who fully enforced them by apparently committing the national administration to the extreme radical doctrine, and making the military commander in Missouri appear to be acble parts of my whole military service was the thirty days in command of that division at Triune, and some of my strongest and most valued army attachments were formed there. But that happy period of soldier life was brief. Early in May President Lincoln reappointed me major-general, with original date, November 29, 1862, and ordered me back to the old scene of unsoldierly strife and turmoil in Missouri and Kansas. In 1861 and 1862 I had a Hibernian striker who had been a soldier in the
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter V (search)
r afterward manifested toward me, and which, with the like manifestations of approval from President Lincoln, are to me the most cherished recollections of my official career. The appreciation of nks, originated during the administration of General Fremont. in Missouri, so much desired by Mr. Lincoln, was exactly what the radicals did not want and would not have. Satisfied of this and disguselieve me, Yours very truly, (Signed) J. M. Schofield. On June 20, I telegraphed to Mr. Lincoln: The action of the Missouri State Convention upon the question of emancipation will depen as in State politics; that the conservatives were sincere in their friendship and support of Mr. Lincoln, and desired his renomination, while the radicals were intriguing for Mr. Chase or some otherhan by quoting from my correspondence and journal of that period. On August 28 I wrote to President Lincoln as follows: In reply to your telegram of the 27th, transmitting copy of one received f
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Chapter VI (search)
Chapter VI A memorandum for Mr. Lincoln the President's instructions his reply to theilitia regiments summoned to Washington by Mr. Lincoln offered the command of the army of the Ohihat my true position was on that question. Mr. Lincoln promptly dismissed the subject with the woose fellows have been lying to me again. Mr. Lincoln undoubtedly referred here to a previous incime it arrived I had become so satisfied of Mr. Lincoln's confidence that I did not think it worth eemed that of inextricable confusion, which Mr. Lincoln and his friends were anxious to unravel, ifbeen friendly to me was also a supporter of Mr. Lincoln, while the radicals were opposed to him. Incommander suited to its peculiarities. But Mr. Lincoln declared decidedly to me, and to my friendse cause, was uppermost in his mind. With Mr. Lincoln I had no personal acquaintance, having met end the political necessity which compelled Mr. Lincoln to give his official countenance to such me[5 more...]