Abraham Lincoln (1897) (14591136160)

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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when he called the Lordthe God of Abraham, and the Godof Isaac, and the God of Jacob. ForHe is not a God of the dead, but ofthe living: for all live unto Him.God has taken your son from youfor some good end — possibly foryour good. Doubt it not. I havea sermon upon this subject whichpossibly may interest you. Please send it to me, Dr. Vin-ton, said the President, as the m-terview closed. The sermon came. Mr. LincolnAvas so impressed by its treatmentof the Eesurrection and Immortal-ity that he read it again and again,and caused it to be copied. Xo lono-er was Thursday a day for seclusion. With unwonted cheerfulnesshe took up the burden of the nation. The thought that in the radiantfuture he would once more clasp his boy in his arms made his sorroweasier to bear than ever before, C) and he cheerfully turned histliouirhts to the affairs of the nation. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad had been closed by the burning ofthe bridge at Harpers Ferry, and the destruction of the companys shops
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FRANCIS VINTON. WINTER OF 1862. 301 and engines at Martinsburg. The President was very anxious that theraihoad should once more be opened. McClelhin informed him that hecontemplated a grand strategic movement, which would result, he wasconfident, in the capture of the Confederate troops at Winchester andthe reopening of the road. He would put down a pontoon-bridge atHarpers Ferry, which would deceive the enemy, they thinking it wasonly for a temporary purpose; but the real, substantial bridge Avould bethe mooring of a line of boats which he was having built, and a bridgelaid upon them. The President was delighted. A glad surprise awaits the country, which will restore the confi-dence of the people in McClellan, he said to a member of the Cabinet. Do you really think so f Yes. He has left no loop-hole for escape. He has said to Stantonand myself that if this move fails he will have nobody to blame but himself. () General Hooker, with a body of troops, at the same time was tocross the P