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Title: Men and things I saw in civil war days
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Rusling, James Fowler, 1834-1918
Subjects: Generals
Publisher: New York, Cincinnati, The Methodist book concern
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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s certain that ourgreat conflict as it proceeded—involving a whole con-tinent and a vast people, with world-wide and time-long results—sobered and steadied him, and anchoredhim on God as the Supreme Ruler of nations (as a likeexperience sobered and anchored William of Orangeand Cromwell and Washington); and in the end Abra-ham Lincoln became a ruler worthy to rank with eventhese. Of all the great figures of our Civil War, AbrahamLincoln alone looms up loftier and grander as the yearsroll on; and his place in the pantheon of history is secureforever. As was well sung of a true knight of old: His good sword is rust; His bones are dust; His soul is with the saints, we trust. Among all his great contemporaries, he still stands andwill forever stand, as Goldsmith well said: As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form,Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm.Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread.Eternal sunshine settles on its head. > See Appendix, p. 355.18
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Andrew Johnson, J 864. Andrew Johnson CHAPTER IIAndrew Johnson My first chapter being on Abraham Lincoln, it seemsfitting- to follow it with one on Andrew Johnson. I became interested in Andrew Johnson before thewar, as a senator from Tennessee, and an advocate of theHomestead bill, when all other Southern senators, I be-lieve, were hostile to it. This bill proposed to divideour Western Territories into small farms of one hundredand sixty acres each, and to give them to actual settlersthere, and therefore was in the interests of free labor,and, of course, the South opposed it because it was hos-tile to slave labo . Johnson, nevertheless, courageouslysupported it, Congress after Congress; but it never be-came a law unti the Southern statesmen seceded, andthen the RepubUcan majority placed it on the statutebook, and urxder its wise and beneficent provisions thegreat West soon became an empire of small farmers. I always thought Andrew Johnson deserved creditfor his manly advocacy of this

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