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Title: Abraham Lincoln : a character sketch
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Sheppard, Robert Dickinson, b. 1846 Adam, G. Mercer (Graeme Mercer), 1830-1912 Shepardson, Francis Wayland, 1862-1937. The life of Lincoln Smith, Goldwin, 1823-1910. The early days of Abraham Lincoln
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: Chicago : Union School Furnishing Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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olns. The anger of the President was instantly aroused, andhe exhibited such vehemence and intensity that the partyof politicians fairly quailed before him. His wrath wasterrifying when he put his foot down, and declared thatSenator Baker was his friend, and that no man could as-sail him with impunity—if they hoped to gain anythingby such nefarious conduct they were greatly mistaken. The result was that the charges against Senator Bakerwere retracted and ample apologies made,and such a dis-position was made of the offices on the coast as satisfiedMr. Baker, while the Californians were allowed to havetheir own way to a great extent in their own state. DANCE AT MIDNIGHT—HOW LINCOLN RECEIVED THENEWS FROM GETTYSBURG. One evening at a crowded party given by Senator ABRAHAM LINCOLN. »43 Dixon, I was forced by the press into a comer and onlooking around, found my next neighbor was SecretaryStanton. By-and-by Dixon came along and spying ussaid: Stanton, tell him the scene between old Abe
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The Battle of Gettysburg, from the Painting by Wenderoth. Stan- and you the night of the battle of Gettysburg.ton then related the following: Mr. Lincoln had been excessively solicitous about theresult of that battle. It was known that Lee had crossedinto Pennsylvania, threatening Washington, and that abattle had commenced near Gettysburg, upon which, inall probability, the fate of Washington and the issue ofthe war depended. The telegraphic wires ran into theWar Department and dispatches had been received of the H4 ABRAHAM LINCOLN. first days fight, which showed how desperate was theattack, the stubbornness of the defense, and that the re-sult was indecisive. All that day and the next Mr. Lin-coln was in an agony of anxiety, running over, as washis wont, to the War Office to ascertain for himself thelatest news instead of waiting for the reports to be senthim by his subordinates. Then came a long intervalwhen nothing was heard from Meade, and the Presidentwas wrought up to an intense

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