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Title: The true Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Curtis, William Eleroy, 1850-1911
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Slaves Presidents
Publisher: Philadelphia London : J.B. Lippincott
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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did not interfere. Now, the under-taking being a success, the honor is all yours, for Ibelieve none of us went farther than to acquiesce. Andtaking the work of General Thomas into the count, as itshould be taken, it is, indeed, a great success. Not onlydoes it afford the obvious and immediate military advan-tages, but in showing to the world that your army couldbe divided, putting the stronger part to an importantnew service, and yet leaving enough to vanquish the oldopposing force of the whole—Hoods army—it bringsthose who sat in darkness to see a great light. Butwhat next? I suppose it will be safe if I leave GeneralGrant and yourself to decide. Please make my grate-ful acknowledgments to your whole army, officers andmen. Lincolns relations with Sheridan were limited. Theynever met but twice, and there was very little corre-spondence between them, the most notable being thelaconic despatch after Sheridans fight with Ewell atSailors Creek, near the Appomattox. That was one of 270
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I A COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF AND HIS GENERALS the last blows struck at the Confederacy, and Sheridan,realizing the situation, made a hasty report, ending withthe words,— * If the thing is pressed I think Lee will surrender. Grant forwarded the despatch to President Lincoln,who instantly replied,— Let the thing be pressed. When he had read the telegram describing Sheridanslast fight with Early in the Shenandoah Valley, he re-marked that he once knew a man who loaded a piece ofpunk with powder, lighted it, clapped it inside a biscuit,and tossed it to a savage dog that was snarling at him.In an instant the dog snapped it up and swallowed it.Presently the fire touched the powder and away went thedog, his head in one place, a leg here and another there,and the different parts scattered all over the country. And, said the man, as for the dog, as a dog, I wasnever able to find him. * And that, remarked thePresident, is very much the condition of Earlys army,as an army. President Lincolns appea

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