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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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ue, in the exercise of State Sovereignty, had withdrawn from the American Union, and the solemn question presented for Mr. Lincoln's decision was whether coercion should be employed for her restoration — a power which, when proposed in the Conventioe result is before the world. No sane man now doubts that if, on assuming the Executive authority four years ago, Mr. Lincoln, in his Inaugural Address, had proclaimed the sentiment, recommended by General Scott, "Wayward sisters, depart in peaMarch, 1865, will blaze over a Republic's sepulchre. We speak, of course, on the theory that it was the object of Mr. Lincoln's advisers in 1861 to secure the preservation of "the Union." If this was not their object; if they sought to subvert een devoted to the production of Victories of Peace, what a different spectacle would now meet the eye from that which Mr. Lincoln may behold, by looking beyond the delirious crowds which attend his inauguration, and surveying the countless graves,
arger, and give Sherman an immense cavalry force. The question of a State Convention. The House of Delegates, on yesterday, passed a resolution to submit to the people, at the general election on the fourth Thursday of this month, whether or not a convention of the State shall be called. Messrs. Singleton and Hughes. It has been announced by the Yankee press, and the announcement has been published by us, that General Singleton and Judge Hughes had obtained passports from Mr. Lincoln to visit Richmond. The Yankee papers said the object of their mission was to convince the rebels of the hopelessness of further resistance. They arrived at Varina on Monday, but the freshet in the river, by preventing the running of our boats, has delayed their arrival in Richmond. These visits of Northern gentry are always covered with such a cloud of mystery by our officials that it is impossible to learn anything positively about them; and we are left generally to conjecture as to t
Spirit of our soldiers. At a meeting of the Twenty-sixth Virginia cavalry, held this day, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted: Whereas, Abraham Lincoln, representative of the United States Government, regardless of the commonest dictates of humanity in the late interview with our commissioners, has indicated a fixed purpose and design to place in bondage the free and sovereign States of this Confederacy, and thereby reduce to absolute vassalage the citizens of the same; and whereas, he predicts his ability to carry out his fiendish purposes upon the presumed discontent in our army; therefore be it 1. "Resolved, That we, the Twenty-sixth regiment Virginia cavalry, Jackson's brigade, send greeting to our comrades in arms throughout the Confederacy our firm and inflexible determination to accept the gage of battle tendered by the Northern hirelings, and, with a firm reliance upon Almighty God, never, never to lay down our arms until we have secured the pr