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Title: Father Abraham
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Tarbell, Ida M. (Ida Minerva), 1857-1944 Campbell, Blendon, ill
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: New York : Moffat, Yard and Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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ookinblue. Anyhow the boys are always get-tin themselves into trouble by theirpranks. Jokin fills the guard-house asoften as drunkenness or laziness. Thatand their bein so sassy. A lot of em 25 FATHER ABRAHAMthink they know just as much as the offi-cers do, and I reckon theyre right prettyoften. It takes some time to learn thatit aint good for the service for them tobe speakin their minds too free. At thestart they did it pretty often—do nowsometimes. Why, only just this weekStanton told me about a sergeant, whoone day when the commanding officerwas relieving his mind by swearing athis men, stepped right out of the ranksand reproved him and said he was break-ing the law of God. Well, they clappedhim in the guard-house and now theywant to punish liim harder—say he aintpenitent—keeps disturbin the guard-house by prayin at the top of his voicefor that officer. I told Stanton we betternot interfere, that there wasnt nothingin the regulations against a mans prayinfor his officers. 26
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Dont Mind Me, Billy, The Lord Generally KnowsWhat Hes About FATHER ABRAHAM Yes, its a funny army. There dontseem to be but one thing that discouragesit, and thats not fightin. Keep em stillin camp v/here youd think theyd be com-fortable and they go to pieces every time.Its when theyre lyin still we have theworst camp fever and the most deserters.Keep em on the move, let em thinktheyre goin to have a fight and they perkup right off. We cant fail with men like that.Make all the mistakes we can, theyllmake up for em. The hope of this war isin the common soldiers, not in the generals—not in the War Department, not in me.Its in the boys. Sometimes it seems tome that nobody sees it quite right. Its inwar as it is in life—a whole raft of menwork day and night and sweat and die toget in the crops and mine the ore andbuild the towns and sail the seas. They 27 FATHER ABRAHAMmake the wealth but they get mighty Httleof it. We aint got our values of menswork figured out right yet—the value o

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