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Title: Tom Strong, Lincoln's scout : a story of the United States in the times that tried men's souls
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Mason, Alfred Bishop, 1851-1933
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: New York : H. Holt and 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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r that, Porter replied. TheGeneral told me to put Strong to whatever workI could find for him to do. 278 Tom Strong, Lincolns Scout Come ahead, said Sheridan. Youll seesome beautiful fighting! Sheridan loved fighting, but he made no pre-tense of never being afraid. He thought a gen-eral should be close to the front, to keep hissoldiers spirits high. Are you never afraid? Charles A. Dana,then Assistant Secretary of War, once askedhim. If I was, I should not be ashamed of it. If Ishould follow my natural impulse, I should runaway always at the beginning of the danger.The men who say they are never afraid in a bat-tle do not tell the truth. March 29, 1865, the twelve-day campaign be-gan. The cavalry swung out towards FiveForks, where Lees right wing lay behind deepentrenchments. April 1, Sheridan attacked inforce. Americans fought Americans with stub-born bravery on both sides. The issue was longin doubt. Sheridan and his staff were close tothe firing-line, so that Tom had but a few hun-
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Statue of Gen. Philip H. SheridanSheridan Square, Washington, D. C. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, New York. Tom Strong, Lincolns Scout 279 dred yards to gallop under fire when his generalsaid to him: Tell General Griffin to charge and keepcharging. Griffins order to his troops was so quicklygiven that it seemed an echo of the order Tombrought him. It was the boys business to re-turn forthwith and report upon his mission, buthe simply couldnt do it. There were the Con-federate lines manned with hungry soldiers inthe remnants of their gray uniforms, the Stars-and-Bars flying above them. And there werebattalions of blue-clad cavalry, men and horsesin prime condition, straining to start like houndsupon a leash. Griffins order was the electricspark that fired the battery. The men shoutedwith joy as they spurred their horses into a madgallop. The shout was answered by the shrill rebel yell from the dauntless foe in thetrenches. The charging column shook theground. In its foremost

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