Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Picture and the Men: Being Biographical Sketches of President Lincoln and His Cabinet; Together With an Account of the Life of the Celebrated Artist, F. B. Carpenter, Author of the Great National Painting, the First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation
The principal authorities used in the work, besides some standard books of reference ao cessible to all, are Mr. Carpenter's own very interesting work, Six Months at the White House, a singularly full collection of the most graphic and entertaining anecdotes and reminiscences; the lives of Mr. Lincoln by Raymond, Holland, Barrett, Crosby, and Mrs. Hanaford Trowbridge's biography of Mr. Chase, entitled Ferry Boy and Financier and Baker's Life of Seward.
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