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Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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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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te onpage 216 of Vol, II. It is, perhaps, not generally remembered thatMr. Lincoln added to the words which he him-self had written a quotation of one of DanielWebsters most famous flights of oratory — thatfamiliar passage in the reply to Hayne, beginning: When my eyes turn to behold for the last timethe sun in Heaven, etc. The modesty was bet-ter than the skill of this addition ; the simplicityof the Presidents language, and the elevation ofthe sentiment which it expressed, did not accordwell with the more rhetorical enthusiasm of Web-sters outburst. The two passages, each so finein its own way, were incongruous in their juxta-position. The accomplished biographer has been seri-ously misinformed. President Lincoln addedno quotation from Daniel Webster to his(iettysburg address, nor any word other thanthose set forth in this paper. John G. Nicolay. Note.—The reader is referred to the Open Letter in this number for comments on the Variations inthe Reports of the Gettysburg Address.
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I;^ (iiiiN r. MlIiii-.ksmn SIX miles north of the Maryland line,at its nearest point, and abont thirtx-live miles south of Harrisburg, lies thequaint town of Gettysburj^. The brokenranches of the South Mountain, throughthe passes in which Lee and his expect-ant, confident legions marched more thana third of a century ago, lie a short dis-tance to the west and north, while sur-rounding the town on all sides are gentlyrolling ridges. The undulating characterof thecountr\-, the facilities forthe concen-tration of armies afforded by the numerousroads, which radiate from the town likethe spokes of a wheel, the heights and in-tervening plains, the woodlands and openfields, all combine to make it an idealplace for a battle. Previous to the eventful days of July,1863, little known beyond the borders ofthe wState, and known within its borderschieflv as the former home of ThaddeusStevens and the site of Pennsylvania Col-lege, a Lutheran institution, Gettysburg,in the twinkling of an eve, was on

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