Norwich bulletin., 1920-05-10
Five Minutes a Day With Our Presidents
ts2o-By James Morgan

1sss-July 1, 2, 3, Battle of Get
 July 4, Grant took VicksburE.
 tysburg.
 Nov. 19, Linclon's Gettysburg
 address.
 1S64-May I, Grant opened the
 Wilderness Campaign. |
 July 10, confederates in sight
 of Washington. l
 July I6, gold rose to s2.s5.
 Aug. 23, Lincoln forecasted
 his defeat in the election
 Aug. 31, Democratic National
 Convention declared the war
 failure.
 Sept 2, sherman entered At
 Ianta.
 Sept. 2. Sheridan won Battle
 of Winchester.
 Nov. 8, Lincoln reelected.
 1065-Feb. ,, met Confederates at
 Hampton Roads conference.
 March 4, his second inaugura-
 tion.
 March 22, arrived at Grant's headquarters.
 April 4, visited Richmond. April 0, returned to WashiaE-
 ton.
 The country lawyer in the White House, who never had set squadron in the field, turned at last the tide of battle when 1t had been running for two years against the Union. AS Lees army swept northward, after smashing the Federal forces at Chaneellorsville. Gen eral Hooker, the Union Commander, proposed to stay behind and take Rich mond Lncoln's eommon-sense rejected that absurd plan and he ordered the army to follow Lee. But after beating the NConfederates at Gettysburg, it let l them retreat in safety, and the Presi- dent impatiently exclaimed, If l had gone there I could have whipped them myself
 The next day after Gettysburg, Grant | took Vieksburg. and that was another l victory which Lincoln made possible. He had stood by Grant, whom he never had seen, when that general had hardly an- other supporter in Washington. T can not spare this man; he fights The President expressed in these few words the great significance of the fall of i Vickburg: "The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea-" A few months afterward he compressed the meaning of the whole mighty struggle | into the few simple sentences of his noble Gettysburg address. After more victories by Grant around Chattanooga, the victorious General was brought east, and. under his command Lincoln started his fifth drive on Rich mond. Then came the darkness before the dawn of the final triumph, and f364 was in some respects the most trying year of the war. A presidential election was at hand, and leading Republican politicians were for anybody but Lin coln.'' Some were for Grant Tt h, takes Richmond, let him have it. saiC the President.
 | Above the whisperings and plots O the politicians, the voice of the peopl rose in a chorus for the renominatioi of Lincoln. Finding themselves withou followers when the Republican conven tion met, the leaders clamored only fo the chance to second the popular mo tion. The President modestly accepte' the uprising for him as simply an evi dence that the people did not believe best to swap horses while crossing tn river"
 Even Lincoln's faith in the peopl was shaken in that summer of despair He doubted if they would go on longe beneath the crushing burden. A shud der of horror ran through the land a the frightful slaughter under Grant the Wilderness. T cannot bear it. the President said. as he turned his sad r dened face away from long line ( r ambulances. Nevertheless he did nc l finch in the midst of his campaign fc 3 reelection from making the staggerin g demand for 5oo.ooo more recruits. t Confederate army boldly advanced witf |, in sight of the capital A gold dolls = was worth in July S2.S5 in greenback e Under the thickening clouds in Al T gust Lincoln sat down, and wrote an 9 sealed forecast of his own defeat :, the November elections and also his n l. solve to cooperate with Mcclellan, u c Democratic candidate, as soon as u V latter should have been elected. Equal d eertain that the President was in a To ing fight, the Democrats adopted a pla Il form which declared the war failul [, and which called for peace by negoti; n tion. But in two days more Sherms