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Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Xxviii. (search)
Xxviii.
In Barrett's biography of Mr. Lincoln, it is stated that the first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation was written on board of the steamboat returning from his 8th of July visit to the army at Harrison's Landing.
This circumstance was not included in the statement given me, and to others in my presence, at different times; but from the known relations of the author with the President, it is undoubtedly true.
The original draft was written upon one side of four half sheets of official foolscap.
He flung down upon the table one day for me, several sheets of the same, saying, There, I believe, is some of the very paper which was used; if not, it was, at any rate, just like it.
The original draft is dated September 22d, 1863, and was presented to the Army Relief Bazaar, at Albany, N. Y., in 1864.
It is in the proper handwriting of Mr. Lincoln, excepting two interlineations in pencil, by Secretary Seward, and the formal heading and ending, which were written by the chi
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House, Lxii. (search)
Lxii.
The President's friend, the Hon. H. C. Deming of Connecticut, once ventured to ask him if he had ever despaired of the country?
When the Peninsula campaign terminated suddenly at Harrison's Landing, rejoined Mr. Lincoln, I was as nearly inconsolable as I could be and live.
In the same connection Colonel Deming inquired if there had ever been a period in which he thought that better management upon the part of the commanding general might have terminated the war?
Yes, answered the President, there were three: at Malvern Hill, when McClellan failed to command an immediate advance upon Richmond; at Chancellorville, when Hooker failed to reenforce Sedgwick, after hearing his cannon upon the extreme right; and at Gettysburg, when Meade failed to attack Lee in his retreat at the bend of the Potomac.
After this commentary, the Congressman waited for an outburst of denunciation — for a criticism, at least — upon the delinquent officers; but he waited in vain.
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