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An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln : John title: G. Nicolay's Interviews and Essays author: Nicolay, John G.; Burlingame, Michael publisher: Southern Illinois University Press isbn10 | asin: 0809320541 print isbn13: 9780809320547 ebook isbn13: 9780585029764 language: English Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Friends subject and associates--Interviews. publication date: 1996 lcc: E457.2.N67 1996eb ddc: 973.7/092 Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Friends subject: and associates--Interviews. An Oral History of Abraham Lincoln John G. Nicolay's Interviews and Essays MICHAEL BURLINGAME Sponsored by the Abraham Lincoln Association SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY PRESS Carbondale and Edwardsville Copyright © 1996 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Designed by Ed King 99 98 97 4 3 2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nicolay, John G. (John George), 18321901. An oral history of Abraham Lincoln: John G. Nicolay's interviews and essays/edited by Michael Burlingame. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Lincoln, Abraham, 18091865Friends and associates Interviews. I. Burlingame, Michael, 1941. II.Title. E457.2.N67 1996 973.7'092dc20 95-36368 ISBN 0-8093-2054-1 (cloth: alk. paper) CIP The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. LOVINGLY DEDICATED TO Lois Erickson McDonald Contents Acknowledgments ix Editor's Introduction xi 1. THE SPRINGFIELD INTERVIEWS 1 Orville H. Browning 1 John Todd Stuart 7 Ozias M. Hatch 16 Clark M. Smith 17 William Butler 18 Milton Hay 25 Jesse K. Dubois 29 Henry S. Greene 32 Peter Van Bergen 33 Stephen T. Logan 34 John W. Bunn 39 2. THE WASHINGTON 41 INTERVIEWS James K. Moorhead 41 Simon Cameron 42 Norman B. Judd 44 T. Lyle Dickey 48 Hamilton Fish 50 Lafayette Foster 53 Lot M. Morrill 54 William M. Evarts 56 Ward Hill Lamon 57 Page viii Leonard Swett 58 Morton S. Wilkinson 59 Stephen A. Hurlbut 62 Lyman Trumbull 65 John Palmer Usher 65 Hannibal Hamlin 67 Joseph Holt 68 Richard M. Hoe 77 John M. Sherman 79 James Speed 80 Godlove Orth 82 Edward D. Neill 83 Henry Wilson 83 3. OTHER INTERVIEWS AND 86 TWO ESSAYS BY NICOLAY Nathaniel P. Banks 86 Dr. Parker 87 Frederick W. Seward 87 A Son of John W. Crisfield 87 Robert Todd Lincoln 88 John G. Nicolay 90 William M. Springer 90 "Lincoln in the Campaign of 1860" 91 "Some Incidents in Lincoln's 107 Journey from Springfield to Washington" Notes 123 Index 159 Page ix Acknowledgments I am extemely grateful to John Y. Simon, the godfather of this volume and my previous book, The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln. For several years, he has been a constant source of encouragement and support, which is deeply appreciated. I am also grateful to Richard N. Current, Robert W. Johannsen, and Mark E. Neely, Jr., who comprised the jury that bestowed the 1995 Abraham Lincoln Association Prize on this book, and to Frank J. Williams, under whose presidency the Association established the prize. I am indebted to Wayne C. Temple and Thomas F. Schwartz, who generously read the manuscript and gave me the benefit of their vast knowledge of Lincoln and his times. I also received generous help from Fred Baumann, Katie McDonough, and other members of the staff at the Library of Congress's Manuscript Division; from Jennifer Lee and her colleagues at the John Hay Library at Brown University; and from Cheryl Schnirring and others at the Illinois State Historical Library. Because some of Nicolay's interviews were in a peculiar shorthand, I had to find someone who could translate them. The staff at the Library of Congress's Manuscript Division referred me to William Mohr, who took time from his work on the journals of Montgomery Meigs to accommodate me. To all the above I extend special thanks. At Connecticut College, Julia Gerl, Tina R. Falck, Regina B. Foster, and Anita L. Allen cheerfully and efficiently typed the interviews for me. The college's R. Francis Johnson Faculty Development Fund helped defray some of my research expenses. Thanks to the kindness of Sue and Edwin Coover, my sister and brother-in-lawwho extended hospitality at their suburban Washington home far above and beyond the call of family dutythose expenses were a lot less than most out-of- town scholars incur. Finally, I would like to thank the lovely and long-suffering Lois Erickson McDonald, who demonstrates Lincolnian forbearance when I am away on extended research safaris and even more forbearance when I am back in Connecticut.

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John C. Nicolay, who had known Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois, served as chief White House secretary from 1861 to 1865. Trained as a journalist, Nicolay had hoped to write a campaign biography of Lincoln in 1860, a desire that was thwarted when an obscure young writer named William Dean Howells go
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