Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His TimeAllen Thorndike Rice Contributions by Cassius M. Clay, Robert Ingresoll, Walt Whitman, Charles Dana, Frederick Douglass, Benjamin F. Butler & many others. The thirty-three able & distinguished men who contributed the reminiscences which form this volume were nearly all prominent & official actors in the civil & military service of the government during the War Between the States. This bulk of the text is concerned with personal character rather than concise & definite historical statement with date & detail of action. A brilliant narrative written about thirty years after the event narrated in it. Illus. |
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