Others About Modesty
David D. Porter, Admiral, US Navy
“You Can’t Put a Long Blade into a Short Scabbard”
By David D. Porter， April 1. 1865
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“But It is Well to be Humble”
By David D. Porter , April 4, 1865
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“You can cast off the name of slave and trample”
By David D. Porter , April 4, 1865
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“It was not Best to Swap Horses when Crossing Streams”
June 9, 1864 June 27, 1864
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_AL1_Day1-1864-06-09-Artist-Carpenter,Francis B.-Six-166-Modesty1,Humor1-trying to swap
“It won’t Scour”
November 19, 1863
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“I am Not Very Strong on Grammar”
By Newton Bateman, May, 1860
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“Since I Came into this Place”
By Noah Brooks
“You were Right, and I was Wrong”
July 13, 1863
“There was No Triumph in his Gesture or Attitude”
By John S. Barnes, April 4, 1865
“He Jumped up and Said, With a Boyish Manner”
By Thomas T. Graves , April 4, 1865
“It was Impossible to Detect in him the Slightest Feeling of Pride”
By Marquis de Chambrun , April 6, 1865
“It is no Pleasure to Me to Triumph over any One”
November 8, 1864
“Not a Word of Triumph, Not a Gesture of Victory”
November 10, 1864
“Lincoln Took the Matter very Calmly”
By Noah Brooks, November 8, 1864
“The Wording of his Acceptance was Remarkably Cool”
March 1, 1865
“Not Entirely a Failure”
November 19, 1863
“Lincoln Put these Humble People at their Easy”
January 30, 1861
“I Reckon It’s him”
By Henry C. Whitney, July 19, 1856
“There is not Much of Me”
Dec 20, 1859
Letter to General Grant （April 30, 1864）
April 30, 1864
“You were Right, and I was Wrong”
July 13, 1863