Words : Generous

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Lincoln and Secretary of War Simon Cameron

To the Senate and House of Representatives 

May 26, 1862

“Cameron Gratefully Remembered”

By John G. Nicolay and John Hay

“I have never Served a President”

By John G. Nicolay and John Hay, July 24, 1861

Lincoln and Mary Lincoln

“He Bore it as Christ Might have Done”

By Adam Badeau,March 26, 1865

 

“Do Good To Them Who Hate You”

By Mary Lincoln

“He Offered the Hand of Friendship to those”

By Carl Schurz , November 10, 1864

 

 

“He Took Them All With The Utmost Innocence And Good-nature”

1849

 

McClellan

“Lincoln Tolerated Such Flagrant Breaches Of Protocol”

1861

 

“Not To Be Making Points Of Etiquette Personal Dignity”

November 13, 1861

 

“He Defends McClellan Against The Supervision”

 

“Lincoln Took Upon Himself The Whole Blame”

April 5, 1861. Welles diary, Vol. I (1960 edn.), pp. 23–25.

 

“Lincoln, Once More, Assumed The Blame”

Gustavus V. Fox  ,May 1, 1861

 

“Lincoln Had Stood By Him”

Blairs,1864

 

“In This Matter Lincoln Is Too Easy-going”

John C. Fremont  September 2, 1861

 

“Despite A Blizzard Of Such Indictments”

July 29, 1861

 

“Are Not These Criticisms Already Acrimonious Enough”

1861

 

Letter to James Hackett (November 2, 1863)

November 2, 1863

 

“Patient Tolerance”

Portrait painter Albert Jasper Conant,August 1860

 

“He Was Constantly Out With The Common People”

“A Breeze Had Sprung Up Over The Domestic Sea”

 

 

Mary Lincoln

“I Have Had As My Daily Portion”

“Keep Up Your Courage”

“What Did Mrs. Lincoln Say”

“Always Criticizing Her Husband”

 

 

 

Magnanimity

 

 

 

 

“If He Could Do So ‘unbeknown’ to Him”

By William T. Sherman, March 28, 1865

“Let them Have their Horses to Plow With”

By David D. Porter, March 28, 1865

“Leave them their Guns to Shoot Crows With”

By David D. Porter, April 5, 1865

“Tell the Folks He Got Away from me”

By William Henry Crook, April 10, 1865

“He Shook his Hands as if Scaring Sheep”

By Gideon Welles, April 14, 1865

“It’s Best to Let him Run”

By Assistant Secretary of War Charles A. Dana, April 14, 1865

“Enemies! We Must Never Speak of that”

By Marquis de Chambrun, April 9, 1865

“I Insisted Yesterday that We Fairly Captured it”

By Marquis de Chambrun, By William Henry Crook, April 10, 1865

“Spoke Very Kindly of General Lee and Others”

By Edwin M. Stanton , April 14, 1865

“There Was No Hatred in Lincoln’s Heart”

By Dale Carnegie

“Do Good To Them Who Hate You”

By Mary Lincoln

Lincoln and  Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton

“He is the Rock on the Beach of Our National Ocean”

By George W. Julian, By Owen Lovejoy

“If Stanton Said I was a Damned Fool”

By George W. Julian, By Owen Lovejoy

“Act From a Favorite Child”

By Leonard Grover

Lincoln Appointed Stanton as Secretary of War

By George F. Harding, January 13, 1862

Lincoln and Secretary of Treasury Salmon P. Chase

By Henry Wilson, By John G. Nicolay, By John Hay, December 1864

“I Would Not Hesitate a Moment”

By Noah Brooks, December 1864

“I Know Meaner Things About Governor Chase”

By John B. Alley, December 1864

“I Should Have Been Recreant to My Convictions of Duty”

By Augustus Frank, By Francis B. Carpenter, December 1864

“I Should Despise Myself”

By Gideon Welles,By Zachariah T. Chandler, December 1864

“Would Rather Have Swallowed His Buckhorn Chair”

Lincoln and Secretary of State William H. Seward

By John G. Nicolay, April 1, 1861

“Mr. Lincoln’s unselfish magnanimity”

Lincoln and Secretary of War Simon Cameron

May 26, 1862

To the Senate and House of Representatives 

By John G. Nicolay and John Hay

“Cameron Gratefully Remembered”

 

 

“I have never Served a President”

 

By John G. Nicolay and John Hay, July 24, 1861

 

Lincoln and Mary Lincoln

“He Bore it as Christ Might have Done”

By Adam Badeau,March 26, 1865

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