Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Opening Volume I of Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln: The War Years to page 553, he read the assembled newspapermen what the Emancipator said to Mary Livermore, the Civil War reformer and social worker who visited him for a word of cheer and comfort after one of the war's bloodiest battles, Antietam...
...press Mr. Roosevelt gave a free headline: "President Quotes Lincoln and Draws Parallel." Many a U.S. newspaper used the headline; and the New York (tabloid) Daily Mirror decided to give Mr. Roosevelt a check for a tyro head-writer's daily pay, sent him $5.94, deducting 6? for Social Security...
Some will read this book for the Hogarthian gusto of its descriptions, humor, writing. Some will read it for the great familiar story of the war with its almost too literary climax of Lincoln's death at the moment of victory. Others, in the mood of another great struggle for U.S. survival, will read it for its swarming picture of a people's energies, creating out of next to nothing the greatest armies and armaments the world had seen, bursting into rowdyism, drinking, drabbing, killing, doggedly enduring continual defeat until the strength had been built up for ultimate...
...North shouted for appeasement. Lincoln was inaugurated. At the Washington Theater Joseph Jefferson delighted Unionists and secesh alike with Rip Van Winkle. Hungry customers at Harvey's kept 20 men busy opening oysters. "A valuable Negro" was put up for sale at the county jail. Lilacs bloomed in the dooryards. The new President was driven crazy by "the unceasing tramp" of the Republican office seekers in the White House halls...
...Said Lincoln to the Sixth Massachusetts, who had fought their way through Baltimore: "I don't believe there is any North. The Seventh Regiment is a myth. You are the only Northern realities." Next day reinforcements began to pour...