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Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Xiv. (search)
d, would soon die. Promising the father that I would bear the case in mind, I improved an opportunity, as soon as I felt sure of having found favor with the President, to speak to him about it, I believe it was on the private staircase, that, meeting him one evening, I ventured to introduce the subject. I assured him of the entire good faith and loyalty of both father and son. Of course he had never heard of the case before. Considering the subject a moment, he said, Come up-stairs by-and-by, and I guess we can fix it up. An hour later I entered his room, and gave him very briefly the particulars of the case reading one or two letters from the young man to his father. That will do, said the President, putting on his spectacles, and taking the letter out of my hand, he turned it over and wrote on the back of it, Release this man upon his taking the oath. A. Lincoln. There, said he, you can take that over to the War Department yourself, if you choose. You will find it all right.
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Xxxvii. (search)
y glad to claim connection, if I could do so honestly. Well, said the old gentleman, my name is Simmons. Abe and I used to live and work together when we were young men. Many a job of wood-cutting arid rail-splitting have I done up with him. Abe Lincoln, said he with emphasis, was the likeliest boy in God's world. He would work all day as hard as any of us — and study by firelight in the log-house half the night; and in this way he made himself a thorough practical surveyor. Once, during those days, I was in the upper part of the State, and I met General Ewing, whom President Jackson had sent to the Northwest to make surveys. I told him about Abe Lincoln, what a student he was, and that I wanted he should give him a job. He looked over his memoranda, and, pulling out a paper, said: There is — county must be surveyed; if your friend can do the work properly, I shall be glad to have him undertake it — the compensation will be six hundred dollars! Pleased as I could be, I hastene<
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Xl. (search)
ntain his astonishment. What! said he, Abe Lincoln nominated for President of the United State curiosity to inquire of the landlord where Mr. Lincoln lived. While giving the necessary directio such a patriotic curiosity in a stranger. Mr. Lincoln received his salutations with cordiality, tnd accompanied him thither. Arriving at Mr. Lincoln's residence, he was introduced to Mrs. LinMrs. Lincoln and the two boys, and entered into conversation in relation to the Lincoln family of the Old Colony,--the Hingham General Lincoln of the Revolutionary army, and the two Worcester Lincolns, brother of those early families of his own name, Mr. Lincoln, with characteristic facetiousness, repliedgenealogy to so patriotic a source as old General Lincoln of the Revolution; though he wished he cothe necessary means. As he began to write, Mr. Lincoln approached, and tapping him on the shoulderhis safe return to the bosom of his family. A. Lincoln. This gave Mr. R. an excellent autograph o[5 more...]
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Liii. (search)
intimate knowledge of the man. A nature of such tenderness and humanity would have been in danger of erring on what many would call the weak side, had it not been balanced by an unusual degree of strong practical good sense and judgment. The Secretary of War, and generals in command, were frequently much annoyed at being overruled,--the discipline and efficiency of the service being thereby, as they considered, greatly endangered. But there was no going back of the simple signature, A. Lincoln, attached to proclamation or reprieve. My friend Kellogg, representative from Essex County, New York, received a despatch one evening from the army, to the effect that a young townsman, who had been induced to enlist through his instrumentality, had, for a serious misdemeanor, been convicted by a court-martial, and was to be shot the next day. Greatly agitated, Mr. Kellogg went to the Secretary of War, and urged, in the strongest manner, a reprieve. Stanton was inexorable. Too many c
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Lxviii. (search)
additional number of brigadier and major-generals. Among the immense number of applications, Mr. Lincoln came upon one wherein the claims of a certain worthy (not in the service at all) for a generalship were glowingly set forth. But the applicant didn't specify whether he wanted to be brigadier or majorgeneral. The President observed this difficulty, and solved it by a lucid indorsement. The clerk, on receiving the paper again, found written across its back: Major-General, I reckon. A. Lincoln. A juvenile Brigadier from New York, with a small detachment of cavalry, having imprudently gone within the Rebel lines near Fairfax Court House, was captured by guerillas. Upon the fact being reported to Mr. Lincoln, he said that he was very sorry to lose the horses! What do you mean? inquired his informant. Why, rejoined the President, I can make a better brigadier any day; but those horses cost the government a hundred and twenty-five dollars a head! Mr. Lincoln sometimes