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Title: Lincoln at work : sketches from life
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Stoddard, William Osborn, 1835-1925 Gallagher, Sears, 1869-1955, ill
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: Boston Chicago : United Society of Christian Endeavor
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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n effort. The general grew more and more deferen-tially courteous, less and less declaratory of hisidea that the supreme command belonged tohim. All manner of politics drifted out ofsight, and only the coming movements of theseveral armies remained, to be left to him, skil-fully, by Mr. Lincoln, after their nature, in out-line, had been pretty fully set forth and agreedupon. The long interview, so extraordinary, so in-teresting, so important, came to an end at last.The colonel had gone to other duties longsince, and only General McClellan and GeneralMarcy remained. They were both unusuallyfine-looking men, and they bowed with graceand dignity as the civil power of the UnitedStates walked out of the house every whit assupreme as ever. What did I do ? Why, I had entirely recovered my unfortu-nate temper, and I walked along with Mr. 134 LINCOLN AT WORK Lincoln, looking up to him every now and thenas if he were an exceedingly tall man. I thinkhe laughed aloud once or twice; but he did not
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Every whit as supreme as ever. tell me why, and I did not go back to my workagain that night, for the hour was late whenthe commander-in-chief and his staff re-enteredthe Executive Mansion. etI^

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