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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 1,765 1 Browse Search
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery. 1,301 9 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 947 3 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History 914 0 Browse Search
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House 776 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 495 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 485 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 456 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) 410 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 I. 405 1 Browse Search
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unning the blockade, but "would report to no one; he would go and act on has own hook." At half-past 7 o'clock this morning the iron battery Galena and the gunboats Aroosteok and Port Royal weighed anchor, and, under direct orders from President Lincoln, who is still here, proceeded up the James river. The vessels sailed in the order in which they are named. The movement was unexpected to people here, although it ought to have been made one week ago; but the stolid indifference of the chief naval commander has given everybody the impression that little might be expected from the North Atlantic squadron while it is under its present chief. The arrival of President Lincoln here is most opportune. Notwithstanding his inexperience in naval masters, he at once saw the necessity of a little action among the immense fleet that has been rotting in these waters for several months pass. At a quarter past ten o'clock A. M., heavy cannonading was heard from the direction of the sam
The Lincoln rule in Nashville. --Charles Realy, who formerly represented the Fifth District of Tennessee in the United State Congress; Joseph C. Rye, cashier of the Branch Bank of Tennessee at Columbia; Major William Ledbetter and D. D. Wandel, of Murfreesboro', have been arrested for treason, and are now confined at Nashville, Andy Johnson, the "Military Governor," has informed the directors of the State Bank at Nashville, who gave up the assets of the institution to the Confederate leaders, that they must make a return of every cent of the amount which belonged to the State. The directors are wealthy, and have large interests in and around Nashville.
ecies of property, the slaughter of our sons and brothers, have every motive for barbarity and vengeance, what do we propose to do to these indescribable villains, these enemies of humanity, these ferocious beasts of fury? Do we propose to bang Lincoln, Seward, and the other authorities and instigators of this cruel and inhuman war? We have as much reason, and more, for such a course than the bloodhounds who are seeking to worry and devour us. Walter Savage Landor, whose political ethics haven favorite political ethics, they ought not only to sympathise with the Southern rebellion, but, in the language of Landor, to "offer an asylum to whoever, rising up against oppression and indignity, shall have slain those who caused its." i. e. Lincoln, Seward & Co.--But, whilst we still advocate humane and civilized counsels even to our inhuman enemies, we wish them to understand that we know full well the whole secret of their ferocity, and how it could be so thoroughly tamed that their shar
tour of the temporarily subjugated counties, and most condescendingly offered the people a choice between a civil and military government — the civil, to recognize as its head his highness Gov. F H. Pierpont; the military, his other highness Abraham Lincoln. Of the two evils the least was chosen, and Mr. Pinpoints Lieutenant was politely informed that necessity forced them for the time to submit to the armed legions of Lincoln, but no such dishonor as willing obedience to the usurped authoil and military government — the civil, to recognize as its head his highness Gov. F H. Pierpont; the military, his other highness Abraham Lincoln. Of the two evils the least was chosen, and Mr. Pinpoints Lieutenant was politely informed that necessity forced them for the time to submit to the armed legions of Lincoln, but no such dishonor as willing obedience to the usurped authority of Pierpont could ever be tolerated. So the Lieutenant left the Valley a wiser, if not more decent ma