Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln: Tributes From His Associates, Reminiscences of Soldiers, Statesmen and CitizensThis Volume is not one man's View, nor two men's View, of Abraham Lincoln. It is no portrait biography by a single admirer giving a single picture Of the most picturesque, perhaps the most noble, character in Ameri can history. It is a portfolio of portraits, one of them, careful and labored, by ex-secretary of the Treasury Boutwell, others, vivid and striking snap-shots by men on whose memory some single interview had impressed itself as a great event in their lives, others, single scenes in which President Lincoln was the prominent figure.All these together supply a grand composite picture, the separate parts all blending in one harmonious whole, and supplying such a complete, many-sided view of the man as has never before been given to the American people.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.