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Identifier: abrahamlincol1479coff (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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you, so, under God, it will sustain3ou. I scarcely need add that with what I here speak for the nationgoes my own hearty personal concurrence. The w^ords w^ere spoken with trembling lips, so deep the feeling ofMr. Lincoln. Mr. President, General Grant replied, I accept the commissionfor the high honor conferred. AVith the aid of the noble armies thathave fought on so many fields of our common country, it will be myearnest endeavor not to disappoint your expectations. I feel the fullresponsibilities now devolving upon me; and I know that if they aremet it will be due to those armies, and, above all, to the favor of thatProvidence w^hich leads nations and men. General Grant visited the Army of the Potomac at Culpeper, andmade the acquaintance of General Meade, took a look at the soldiersin a quiet way, and returned to Washington. Mrs. Lincoln had pre-pared a grand dinner expressly in his honor. Mrs. Lincoln must excuse me, he said. I must be in Tennesseeat the earliest possible moment.
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SPRING OF 1864. 399 But Ave cant excuse you, said the President. ^ Were we to sitdown without you it would be Hamlet with Hamlet left out. I appreciate the honor, Mr. President, but time is very preciousjust now. I ought to be attending to affairs. The loss of a day meansthe loss of a million dollars to the country. •• Well, then, we shall be compelled to have the dinner withimt thehonor of your presence, said Mr. Lincoln, as they parted. Xever before had a commander of an)^ of the armies pleaded publicnecessity for declining a dinner at the White House; never a command-er so absorbed as was General Grant in the business of the country.Possibly the declination gave the President more pleasure than hewould have had from an acceptance of the invitation. A few days before General Grant received his commission F. 13.Carpenter, an artist, was installed in the White House to paint a picturecommemorating the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Hebecame a member of the household, an

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