Joe Wheeler - Abraham Lincoln Civil War Stories. Heartwarming Stories about Our Most Beloved President

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Lincoln, the Man of the People
by Edwin Markham

It Took More Than 150 Years
by Joseph Leininger Wheeler

Once to Every Man and Nation
by James Russell Lowell

Countdown to the Civil War
by Joseph Leininger Wheeler

How Lincoln Paid for His First Book
by Earle H. James

Childhood in Lincolns Town
by Octavia Roberts Corneau

He Loved Me Truly
by Bernadine Bailey and Dorothy Walworth

Three Hundred Thousand More
by James Sloan Gibbons

Stalemate
by Joseph Leininger Wheeler

When Lincoln Passed
by Mabel McKee

The Strength Conquered
by T. Morris Longstreth

Boys in the White House
by Ruth Painter Randall and Joseph Leininger Wheeler

The Tall Stranger
by Arthur Somerset

The Missionary Money
by Olive Vincent Marsh

Just Folks
by Mary Wells

The Sleeping Sentinel
by L. E. Chittenden

Lincoln and the Little Drummer Boy
by Roe L. Hendrick

Only a Mother
Author Unknown

A Schoolboys Interview with Abraham Lincoln
by William Agnew Paton

Battle-Hymn of the Republic
by Julia Ward Howe

High Tide at Gettysburg
by Joseph Leininger Wheeler

Across the Great Plains Just to See Lincoln
by Caroline B. Parker

A Lesson in Forgiveness
by T. Morris Longstreth

Ransoms Papers
by Mary Wells

Tad Lincoln
by Wayne Whipple

The Heart of Lincoln
by Louis B. Reynolds

The Perfect Tribute
by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews

Mary Bowman, of Gettysburg
by Elsie Singmaster

Tad Lincolns Goat
by Seth Harmon

President Lincolns Visiting Card
by John M. Bullock

Tenderness in a Ruined City
by Louis B. Reynolds

Memory of Lincoln
by Carla Brown

O Captain! My Captain!
by Walt Whitman

The Living Myth
by Joseph Leininger Wheeler

A Boy Who Loved Lincoln
by Kathleen Reed Coontz

A Decision That Took Courage
by John L. Roberts

Captain, My Captain
by Elizabeth Frazer

Abraham Lincolns Rose
by Isabel Nagel

He Knew Lincoln
by Ninde Harris

Mr. Lincoln, I Love You!
by M. L. OHara

Personal Memories of Abraham Lincoln,
by Robert Brewster Stanton

Never in my writing career has such a thing happened beforeand on the same subject to boot. Back in 2008, Denny Boultinghouse of Howard/Simon & Schuster guided my biography, Abraham Lincoln: A Man of Faith and Courage , through to completion.

Now, five years later, Dennys wife, Philis Boultinghouse, Senior Editor at Howard, has made possible this monumental book, Abraham Lincoln Civil War Stories .

Without their guiding hands, it is doubtful these two books would ever have been born.

Thus it gives me great joy to dedicate this book to

P HILIS AND D ENNY B OULTINGHOUSE

It is significant that when the great Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., was dedicated in 1922, out of all the thousands of Lincoln poems that had been written, only one was deemed worthy to be the Dedicatory Piece: Edwin Markhams Lincoln, the Man of the People. Lines from itespecially the last onehave become iconic around the world. Consequently, I felt it imperative that it should anchor this definitive book of Lincoln war stories .

From an original unretouched negative made in 1864, at the time Lincoln commissioned Ulysses S. Grant as lieutenant general and commander of all armies of the Union.

E DWIN M ARKHAM (18521940)

When the Norn-Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour,

Greatening and darkening as it hurried on,

She bent the strenuous heavens and came down

To make a man to meet the mortal need.

She took the tried clay of the common road

Clay warm yet with the genial heat of the Earth,

Dashed through it all a strain of prophecy;

Then mixed a laughter with the serious stuff.

It was a stuff to wear for centuries,

A man that matched the mountains, and compelled

The stars to look our way and honor us.

The color of the ground was in him, the red earth;

The tang and odor of the primal things

The rectitude and patience of the rocks;

The gladness of the wind that shakes the corn;

The courage of the bird that dares the sea;

The justice of the rain that loves all leaves;

The pity of the snow that hides all scars;

The loving-kindness of the wayside well;

The tolerance and equity of light

That gives as freely to the shrinking weed

As to the great oak flaring to the wind

To the groves low hill as to the Matterhorn

That shoulders out the sky.

And so he came

From prairie cabin up to Capitol,

One fair Ideal led our chieftain on.

Forevermore he burned to do his deed

With the fine stroke and gesture of a king.

He built the rail-pile as he built the State,

Pouring his splendid strength through every blow,

The conscience of him testing every stroke,

To make his deed the measure of a man.

So came the Captain with a mighty heart:

And when the step of Earthquake shook the house,

Wrenching the rafters from their ancient hold,

He held the ridgepole up, and spiked again

The rafters of the Home. He held his place

Held the long purpose like a growing tree

Held on through blame and faltered not at praise.

And when he fell in whirlwind, he went down

As when a kingly cedar green with boughs

Goes down with a great shout upon the hills,

And leaves a lonesome place against the sky.