第1章 ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The author and publisher make grateful acknowledgement to Ginn and Company,Boston,for the photograph of St.Gaudens'Statue;to The Century Company of New York for the Earliest Portrait of Lincoln,which is from an engraving by Johnson after a daguerreotype in the possession of the Honorable Robert T.

Lincoln;and for Lincoln and Tad,which is from the famous photograph by Brady;to The Macmillan Company of New York for the portrait of Mrs.Lincoln and also for The Review of the Army of the Potomac,both of which were originally reproduced in Ida M.Tarbell's Life of Abraham Lincoln.For the rare and interesting portrait entitled The Last Phase of Lincoln acknowledgment is made to Robert Bruce,Esquire,Clinton,Oneida County,New York.This photograph was taken by Alexander Gardner,April 9,1865,the glass plate of which is now in Mr.Bruce's collection.