When President-elect Abraham Lincoln was preparing to go to
Washington he appealed to his old friend and law partner Ward Hill
Lamon: "I want you to go along with me. . . . In fact I must have
you. So get yourself ready and come along." Lamon journeyed from
Springfield to Washington in 1861 and returned to Illinois in
mourning in 1865. Lincoln chose Lamon as his bodyguard when he
slipped into Washington by night to foil conspirators intent on
murder. The president sent him on missions and appointed him
marshal of the District of Columbia. During that time of civil war
Lincoln was often dispirited, and Lamon tried to cheer him.
These recollections were compiled from Lamon's notes and papers
by his daughter, Dorothy, and published in 1895. The expanded
second edition of 1911 has been used for this reprinting.
"Recollections of Abraham Lincoln" has often been cited for its
firsthand testimony about key episodes and incidents, including at
the phantom-like train trip to Washington in 1861, a visit to
Charleston during the secession crisis, and Lincoln's foreboding
dreams.
As James A. Rawley points out in his introduction, Lamon's
recollections of Lincoln's personal qualities an presidency are
important to history.
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