og, I, and father went a-
hunting_."

( 6) _Lincoln_ (Nicolay and Hay), vol. ix., pp. 184-200.

( 7) Vol. ii., p. 610. Also see _Lincoln_ (N. and H.), vol. ix.,
pp. 201-2.

( 8) The attitude of the Democratic party caused the political
friends of President Lincoln the deepest anxiety. In its National
platform adopted at Chicago, August 30, 1864, it demanded, "that
after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment
of war, immediate efforts should be made for a cessation of
hostilities, with a view to an ultimate convention of the States,
or other peaceable means, to the end that at the earliest practicable
moment peace may be restored on the basis of the Federal Union of
the States."

( 9) _Lincoln_ (Nicolay and Hay), vol. ix., pp. 216-21.

(10) If the reader is curious to know what effort was made by the
Confederate authorities to enlist slaves and free negroes as
soldiers, he will find interesting correspondence on the subject
between Davis, Lee, Longstreet, and others. _War Records_, vol.
xlvi., Part III., pp. 1315, 1339, 1356, 1348, 1366, 1370.

(11) Alexander H. Stephens had a small body, small head, and his
whole appearance was that of a most emaciated person. For many
years of his life he was in most delicate health; so feeble he
could not stand or walk. He was moved about in a chair with wheels.
His intellect, however, was strong and elastic, and his voice was
sufficient to enable him to make a public speech. He wrote much.
He was not always consistent in his views. He opposed secession,
then advocated it; then again denied that secession was warranted
by the Constitution. I knew him well in Congress after the war.
He asserted when some of his Democratic brethren were denying Mr.
Hayes' title to the Presidency, that it was superior to the title
of any President who had preceded him--that by virtue of the decision
of the commission, it had become _res adjudicata_.

(12) _Lincoln_ (Nicolay and Hay), vol. x., pp. 113-31; _Lost Cause_
(Pollard), pp. 684-5; _War between States_ (Stephens), vol. ii.,
pp. 597, 608-12.

(13) _Manassas to Appomattox_ (Longstreet), pp. 584-7; _Lincoln_
(Nicolay and Hay), vol. x., pp. 157-8.

(14) _War Records_, vol. xlviii., Part I., p. 1281.

CHAPTER XII
Siege of Richmond and Petersburg--Capture and Re-capture of Fort
Stedman, and Capture of Part of the Enemy's First Line in Front of
Petersburg by Keifer's Brigade, March 25, 1865--Battle