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Excerpt from Mountain Herald: February-March 1919 If there ever lived a purely kindly man it was Abraham Lin coln. He was at great effort to effect a suitable and agreeable exchange for a nephew of Alexander H. Stephens, vice-president of the Confederacy. We find him writing a letter to a New Eng land mother whose six sons were fighting for their country. He stops to show General Howard where a great school ought to be established for the education of my people. It is said that'he never gave an order to have a soldier executed. He had a pigeon hole in his desk labeled leg cases containing courts - martial or dering men to be shot for running away in time of battle or de sertion at other times and awaiting the President's signature which never came. He said a man was certainly worth more to his country living than dead even if his legs did go in the wrong direction at times. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.