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Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
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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first, in which the widowoffered to make up the quarrel by marryingthe Auditor, and this in time was followed byan epithalamium, in which this happy com-promise was celebrated in very bad verses. Inthe change of hands all the humor of the thinghad evaporated, and nothing was left but fem-inine mischief on one side and the exaspera-tion of wounded vanity on the other. Shields,however, had talked so much about the mat-ter that he now felt imperatively called uponto act, and he therefore sent General White-side to demand from the Journal the name of its contributor. Mr. Francis, the editor, wasin a quandary. Lincoln had written the firstletter, and the antic fury of Shields had in-duced two young ladies who took a livelyinterest in Illinois politics — and with goodreason, for one was to be the wife of a Senatorand the other of a President — to follow upthe game with attacks in prose and verse which,however deficient in wit and meter, were notwanting in pungency. In his dilemma he ap-
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WILLIAM H. HERNDON. (FROM A IHOTOGRAIII BV 1NGM1RE.) plied to Lincoln, who. as he was storting toattend court at Tremont, told him to give hisname and withhold those of the ladies. Assoon as Whiteside received this information,he and his fiery principal set out for Tremont,and as Shieldsdid nothing in silence, the newscame to Lincolns friends, two of whom, Will-iam Butler and Dr. Merryman, one of thosecombative medical men who have almost dis-appeared from American society, went off ina buggy in pursuit. They soon came in sightof the others, but loitered in the rear untilevening, and then drove rapidly to Fremont,arriving there some time in advanceof Shield-:so that in the ensuing negotiations Lincolnhad the assistance of friends whose fidelityand whose nerve were equally beyond ques-tion. It would be useless to recount all thetedious preliminaries of the affair. Shields* National Intelligencer, Feb. 28, 1849. 388 ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

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