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“He Read Less and Thought More than any Man”

By William H. Herndon

 

“I’ve Read Enough of it”

By William H. Herndon

 

“His Workshop was Inside his Head”

By Emil Ludwig

 

“Work, Work, Work, is the Main Thing”

Sep. 25. 1860

 

Lincoln’s Talent Comes From His Twenty Years Of Practicing Law.

“He Looked Carefully over all the Papers”

 

“That are Smarter at about Five than Ever After”

October 22, 1846

 

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John Hay: the Assisant Private Secretary 

“The Greatest Character Since Christ”

By John Hay , September 5, 1866

 

“I Believe The Hand Of God Placed Him Where He Is”

By John Hay , August 7, 1863

 

“What a Man it is!”

By John Hay,   April 30, 1864.

 

“He was Fond of Reading Aloud.”

By John Hay

 

“His Wit And Rich Humor Had Free Play”

by John Hay

 

Charles A. Dana: Assistant Secretary of War

 

“To Laugh At Such Frivolous Jests”

By Charles A. Dana, October 11, 1864

 

“The Striking Thing about him was his Affection for the Child.”

By Charles A. Dana

 

“It’s Best to Let him Run”

By Charles A. Dana, April 14, 1865

 

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David D. Porter:  Admiral, US Navy

 

“I have never Served a President”

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

 

“You Can’t Put a Long Blade into a Short Scabbard”

By David D. Porter, April 1. 1865

 

“This was a Step From the Sublime”

By David D. Porter, April 1, 1865.

 

“But It is Well to be Humble”

By David D. Porter , April 4, 1865

 

“He was Not at all Ashamed of”

By David D. Porter ,  1865

 

“How Could One Avoid Liking Such A Man”

By David D. Porter , 1865

 

“He Really Seemed of another World”

By David D. Porter , April 4, 1865

 

“He’s The Best Man I Ever Knew Or Ever Expect To Know”

By David D. Porter , 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

 

“He Had An Illustration For Everything”

By David D. Porter , 1865

 

“The President Had Some Quaint Remarks”

By David D. Porter , 1865

 

“Of All The Men I Ever Met”

By William T. Sherman , March 28, 1865

 

“I Confess I Rather Like it myself”

By William T. Sherman , July 23, 1861

 

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

By William T. Sherman, March 28, 1865

 

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“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

 

“I should have been Recreant to my Convictions of Duty”

By John B. Alley, December 1864

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Edwin M. Stanton:  the Secretary of War

“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

 

“He is Capable of More than That”

By George Harding, 1862

 

“Spoke very Kindly of General Lee and Others”

By Edwin M. Stanton , April 14, 1865

 

“Now He Belongs to the Ages”

By Edwin M. Stanton , April 15, 1865

 

“He Would Break Down and Weep Bitterly”

By Edwin M. Stanton,By Horace Porter,April, 1865

 

 

William H. Seward:  the Secretary of State

“Mr. Lincoln’s unselfish magnanimity”

By John G. Nicolay, April 1, 1861

 

“If He had been Alive”

By William H. Seward ,April 20,1865

 

“Lincoln will Reach the Higher Position in History”

By William H. Seward ,April 20,1865

 

Salmon P. Chase:  the Secretary of Treasury

“I would not Hesitate a Moment”

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

 

“I Know Meaner Things about Governor Chase”

By Noah Brooks, December 1864

 

“I should have been Recreant to my Convictions of Duty”

By John B. Alley, December 1864

 

“I should Despise myself”

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

 

“Would Rather have Swallowed his Buckhorn Chair”

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

 

“His Frank, Genial, Generous Face and Direct Simplicity of Bearing, Took all Hearts.” 

By Salmon P. Chase , August 6, 1862

 

Edward Bates: Attorney General

“Comes Very Near Being a Perfect Man”

By Edward Bates

 

Gideon Welles : the Secretary of the Navy

“He Shook his Hands as if Scaring Sheep”

By Gideon Welles, April 14, 1865

 

“The Debtor Assumed to be Crazy”

By Gideon Welles

 

“When it was Ripe We did not Harvest It.”

By Gideon Welles

 

Simon Cameron: the Secretary of War

To the Senate and House of Representatives 

May 26, 1862

 

“Cameron Gratefully Remembered”

By John G. Nicolay and John Hay