Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln - By Distinguised Men of His Time #234129

T was mainly with the View of accumulating a mass of trustworthy evidence concerning the personal traits and private utterances of Abraham Lincoln that I conceived the plan and approached the task of uniting in one or more volumes the Opinions of the most distinguished characters, still surviving, of the great war which produced them. The result has been gratifying beyond expectation, furnishing — I think it is not too much to say — a remarkable book about a remarkable man.