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...time to save Lincoln from defeat at the polls. Sherman's famed march "from Atlanta to the sea" was only a short segment of his whole campaign; from July 1863 to March 1865 Sherman led his army 2,500 miles through the heart of the South. At Raleigh, N. C. he finally got what he went after: Johnston's surrender, the war's end. Few weeks before, Lee had surrendered to Grant. The generous terms Sherman gave Johnston (at the conference they were soon "Cump" and "Joe") raised a howl in the North, changed Sherman overnight from...
...RALEIGH (Sir Walter) Letters Of. Edited by Lady Raleigh. In Two Volumes. Mint...
Josephus Daniels began a private campaign to change the Democratic party emblem by printing a crowing rooster on the front page of his Raleigh. N. C. News and Observer. Observed he: "The rooster has ten times more style and beauty and clarion call than the donkey...
...California," said Harry Ford Sinclair rather sharply, "and I am in California to stay." Everybody at the dinner remembered the statement, especially Kenneth Raleigh Kingsbury. For Mr. Kingsbury is president of potent Standard Oil Co. of California and much as he and Mr. Sinclair admire each other's ability, he does not relish new invasions of his rich territory...
...Raleigh, Richmond, Baltimore, with a fulllength speech in the last city...