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Identifier: abrahamlincol1479coff (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Sovereign Grand Lodge
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
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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bscribed to the Confed-erate cotton loan, but distrusted the United States. Their sympathies 492 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. were \Yith the Confederacy. The people of Holland and Germany,Avith truer instinct and clearer vision, had purchased the bonds of theUnited States. The new loan might have been negotiated at Frank-fort, Hamburg, and Amsterdam, but President Lincoln and his Cabinetdetermined to call upon the people for money to carry on the Avar.The appeal had not been in vain. In forty-three days $161,000,000 wassubscribed, not by bankers as a speculation, but by the people in ever^^section of the country. () The army under Sherman had reached Goldsboro. Its commander,wishing to confer with General Grant, proceeded to Wilmington, and from that port to City Point. I had witnessed his departure jgggfrom Savannah, beheld the Stars and Stripes floating once more over Sumter, and Avas again Avith the Army of the Potomac.While at headquarters, near the cabin which General Grant had occu-
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GENERAL GRANT S HEADQUARTERS. pied during the winter, I saw him step from the door, folloAved byPresident Lincoln, Generals Sherman, Meade, Ord, and Crook. Good-morning. What neAvs have you ? said the President, shak-ing my hand as he entered the headquarters. I have just arrived, Mr. President, from SaA^annah and Charleston. Indeed! Well, I am right glad to see you. How do the peopledown there like being back in the Union again ? I think some of them are reconciled, if Ave may draw conclusionsfrom the action of one planter, Avho came down Savannah PiA^er on aflat-boat loaded with cotton, bringing wife and children, a negro Avom-an and her children, of Avhom he Avas the father. Of course he wasanxious to sell his cotton. The eyes of the President sparkled as he replied, Oh yes, I see, SECOND PRESIDENTIAL TERM. 493 patriarchal times once more I Abraham, Sarah, Ilagar, Isaac, and Ish-mael, all in one boat. General Sherman laughed heartily, and GeneralGrants countenance was illuminated b

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