Letters and recollections of John Murray Forbes (Railroads) [Unknown Binding]

John Murray Forbes (Author)

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Series: Railroads | Publication Date: 1981

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: With all good wishes for the coming, and many New Years, Believe me, yours faithfully, W. Rathbone. Mr. Rathhone, in 1864, was a leading merchant in Liverpool. Four years later he became a member of Parliament. CHAPTER XVII THE SUMMER OF 1864 At the end of the first half of the year 1864, McClellan had been nominated by the Democracy, and the campaign was now in full swing. I recollect a caricature suggested by my father, not well executed, but sufficiently indicating his view of the situation, in which the Democratic candidate was represented as trying to stand with one foot on a war horse and the other on a peace donkey, and finding the team hard to drive. Among his files I find the following letter from Mr. Sedgwick describing the result of the vote on the recruiting bill, a measure which my father had much at heart. C. B. SEDGWICK TO J. M. FORBES. Washington, D. C., Sunday Morning, July 3, 1864. Governor Andrew reached here yesterday P. M., and spent the night at the Capitol. I saw him on his arrival. They have finally settled the enrollment bill, — not very satisfactorily, but as well as you could expect when you consider the opposing influences. I send you the substance of it from thismorning's "Chronicle." Doubtless the governor will telegraph you what it is. You will see that you have no time to lose. I shall leave for home this evening or in the morning, pretty well used up and tired out, but not disheartened. We have n't been thrashed quite enough yet. We ought to be whipped into that humble frame of mind which will make us willing to get soldiers of any color, and enlist them without scruple even in the enemy's country. This enrollment bill, allowing recruiting in rebel States for sixty days, appears to have become law on the followi...

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#outer_postBodyPS { display: none; } #psGradient { display: none; } #psPlaceHolder { display: none; } #psExpand { display: none; } Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: With all good wishes for the coming, and many New Years, Believe me, yours faithfully, W. Rathbone. Mr. Rathhone, in 1864, was a leading merchant in Liverpool. Four years later he became a member of Parliament. CHAPTER XVII THE SUMMER OF 1864 At the end of the first half of the year 1864, McClellan had been nominated by the Democracy, and the campaign was now in full swing. I recollect a caricature suggested by my father, not well executed, but sufficiently indicating his view of the situation, in which the Democratic candidate was represented as trying to stand with one foot on a war horse and the other on a peace donkey, and finding the team hard to drive. Among his files I find the following letter from Mr. Sedgwick describing the result of the vote on the recruiting bill, a measure which my father had much at heart. C. B. SEDGWICK TO J. M. FORBES. Washington, D. C., Sunday Morning, July 3, 1864. Governor Andrew reached here yesterday P. M., and spent the night at the Capitol. I saw him on his arrival. They have finally settled the enrollment bill, — not very satisfactorily, but as well as you could expect when you consider the opposing influences. I send you the substance of it from thismorning's "Chronicle." Doubtless the governor will telegraph you what it is. You will see that you have no time to lose. I shall leave for home this evening or in the morning, pretty well used up and tired out, but not disheartened. We have n't been thrashed quite enough yet. We ought to be whipped into that humble frame of mind which will make us willing to get soldiers of any color, and enlist them without scruple even in the enemy's country. This enrollment bill, allowing recruiting in rebel States for sixty days, appears to have become law on the followi...

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Publisher: Arno Press (1981)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0405137907
ISBN-13: 978-0405137907
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,668,970 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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