Abraham Lincoln the Backwoods Boy Or How a Young Rail Splitter Became Preside
Abraham Lincoln the Backwoods Boy Or How a Young Rail Splitter Became Preside
Alger Horatio
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Lincoln was asked to assent to the capital punishment of twenty-four deserters, sentenced to be shot for desertion, he ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 239 said to the General who pleaded the necessity of enforcing discipline, "No, General, there are al- ready too many weeping widows in the United States. For God's sake, don't ask me to add to the number, for I won't do it. " From Mr. Carpenter's " Six Months at the White House, " I make the following extract : " The Secretary of War and Generals in com- mand ...were frequently much annoyed at being overruled, the discipline and efficiency of the service being thereby, as they considered, greatly endangered. But there was no going back of the simple signature, ' A. Lincoln, ' attached to proc- lamation or reprieve. " My friend Kellogg, Representative from Essex County, New York, received a dispatch one even- ing from the army, to the effect that a young townsman who had been induced to enlist through his instrumentality, had, for a serious misdemean- or, been convicted by a court-martial, and was to be shot the next day.
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