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Title: The photographic history of the civil war..
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works
Publisher: New York, The Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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THE WARS GREAT CITIZEN AT HIS MOMENT OF TRIUMPH Just behind the round table to the right, rising head and shoulders above the distinguished bystanders, grasping his manuscript in bothhands, stands Abraham Lincoln. Of all the occasions on which he talked to his countrymen, this was most significant. The time andplace marked the final and lasting approval of his political and military policies. Despite the bitter opposition of a majority of theNorthern political and social leaders, the people of the Northern States had renominated Lincoln in June, 1864. In November, en-couraged by the victories of Farragut at Mobile, Sherman in Georgia, and Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley, they had reelected him(resident of the United States by an electoral vote of 212 to 21. Since the election, continued Northern victories had made certain the(16)
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COPYRIGHT, 1911, PATRIOT PUB. CO. LINCOLN READING HIS SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS ON MARCH 4, 18G5 speedy termination of the war. Not long since, his opponents had been so numerous and so powerful that they fully expected to preventhis renomination. Lincoln himself, shortly after his renomination, had come to believe that reelection was improbable, and had ex-pressed himself as ready to cooperate with the President-elect to save the Union. Yet neither in Lincolns demeanor nor in hisinaugural address is there the slighest note of personal exultation. For political and military enemies alike he has malice towardnone; charity for all. Indeed the dominant feeling in his speech is one of sorrow and sympathy for the cruel sufferings of both Northand South. Not only in the United States, but throughout the civilized world, the address made a profound and immediate impression.

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