Show lanar K oil N r 1 2 arm A 9 V 4 4 9 the above little known portrait alt of lincoln la is from a sketch made by freeman thorp in 1861 and shows hows lincoln coln at the age ag of fifty two this Is said aid to be the only portrait of the war president drawn entirety entirely from life years after lincoln died thor thorp wh who was the painter yf f four Prel pre al dent dents studied the existing pictures of lin coln coin but found none so true to life as his penciled with his hie vivid memory of the president as he had hown him in 1861 he painted the above portrait by ELMO SCOTT WATSON LINCOLN 15 li undoubtedly the most mos written about american not nol even except excepting in g 4 tile tin immortal george ington although more inor Os than sixty years have hav w elapsed sinco lie he passed from tire the of tits lila tory ory through nil all these years there lias has been no letup let up in the flit number of books magazino am and newspaper simper tind stray bits ailts of information which have been presented to a public apparently V eager for moro more light upon the lint and enrel career r of this illinois backwoodsman who roso rose to tt of world importance in filet lie file civiss of new liew information about lincoln seems to grow row instead of tit dl as line pusses and if 1020 1920 Is eliy crIte criterion rhon tin tile benr 1027 will eco nn an even eved greater of Linco littana budded to our national nat lonal history lil story in alio pst few cars iconoclasts havo icen husy turning tho arch light upon tile lives of our great with alip abo professed profess eI desire to tolt tell thu ho aholo truth about including those truths which blitch will that they ato less lc is grent than popular oln lon hn helle vod them to havo have been through nil all tilts shattering file krent great figuro of 0 lincoln lias has blood virtually untouched the stature of his qs apparently any now new truth trul ha clout willell may inny I 1 iff revealed hy by tile can nat change in tile least either tho the ver or diet of history tory upon lipon him film least 1 of nil all can hay chango tire tho love for him film of tile the mullion common people whom na its hu he once sald tire the lord must love he be hu ho ninde so of them the to tit lie finco lulana of li r 0 O broel brain that the he amount of now in n tile sense that it Is not widely known about him ts is seemingly outstanding kmonk them thein perhaps perlin ps were varl cart sund sand imers two volume study of 14 abraham lincoln the prairie years yeam and the of the further researches of abo indefatigable alv william Willit tal E B barton two volume life of if lincoln of I 1 wag as third important Import contribution to fresh biographical material incidentally it might bo be added that one bibliography of lincoln material llata hats souie some boso IX ht 3 and pamphlets phiet R 1 Sand burgs biography which Is wholly devoted to showing lincoln in his tinier times befaro he fie went to 0 o tile while house se 1 Is 14 ns its under oun dlug it ii one ne lias has ever hwn been written he be cause it us bilotti another er anan iii an art thell t tie lve vie hie late into stuart Sher sherman in writing a review of sandal burgs work pointed wit out they art gdud companions tho the two of them thell and iny both plain people story toll cri 4 democrats both hoth both uon lincoln perhaps the rompe comoe test spec t lillen that has appeared in ill tho western hemisphere and both poets withal nitride at times and onale ed cd by asking themselves what folk remember in ili the he dust la in tho tombs put but it Is to rev llev wn WJ baliton plat americans airo nr most indebted for cleal lim up many mb about lin coln barton la im n historian who has kult to toh to H tho the truth about lincoln blit lie he la bi no lid itai has legends havu grown up tip in fit he 0 short time of half i century but flit lincoln which lie f ulf S fa V cr ow K c wu v autt p cat TX f W ff sl A A A ao tc ai tim ma 6 loa V 1910 0 f wag aa ia zt 04 hy arf wot l t 0 nw 44 c 44 44 ata cje arx aiyu y A c tfx r rv la ux t caw 0 faw q a i j go af axi ato icy 14 40 14 C uty xvi 0 ys 4 f OF 4 e y ris tw VJ ay iy A yv ty kya X aidt C y e amz t 0 H ft tUf r jf depicts Is IB none the lens ims admirable nor noi to lovable vable if anything im w la Is more M of oi both and Il Har artons tons lincoln demon strates nil fill the he more clearly that lin coln coin needs no myths or legends to tc enhance his tame rattle among the runny ninny interesting cevela tons tunde by this art are tho five sons of mrs lydia 1 who were tho the inspiration for foi ilie fabious bixby letter which was tl delivered ellered to the boston mother on oil th atly 1801 1 with a di dinner ritter and a considerable sum stint of money the inspiration for this ills letter wa was S a 8 statement tat Q trient fruit from the war department to president lincoln coin that urs mra bixby was the mother ot at 11 avo 0 sons four fot tit of whom in ill battle and tonj fifth died of wounds the facto facca walot burton barton lins has brought to light nrc are theme thee two sons charles N bixby tind and oliver C baxby were killed in fit Int battle tle tile the ut at fredericksburg and tile latter in tile crater tight fight before e petersburg but they we were re the only hoxby sons pons who were killed in action another son ion henry C bixby wits cap turca tit at tho the battle of gettysburg hut but wits paroled in 1664 return returned ud to tits his homp discharged front service find lived until V dward n loy boy of eighteen who cna supposed to have died cited of wounds grew crew homesick and deserted to tile lie C enemy y in 1852 1832 after tile the war lie he changed his occupation bec became atile a sailor gatior and is kt known ioNn to have awen living with blis mothers mother in 1801 1871 lie ile died in chicago Clil cago tit in 1009 ceorge way buxby aby F sed to have hoen been kilka fit at petersburg was captured by tile the Cou confederates federates thet there e and it fellow prisoner who returned to hoston reported that tic lie lind deserted t to 0 t the ile enemy encina but inter records state w IH 4 died lit in lir birlson lson although lie ho Is known to have liucc been as late into as march 1865 ht his final fencl rate fato ib 16 unknown SO ho of tho five who died gloriously in the held field of battle as aa lincoln wrote to their mother only two actually did die thus one was a knowli deserter and another in may ly have been hut but for rill all that Lincol ns letter was written under it ft misapprehension and for nil all that the bixby sons may not have been deserving of nit nil tho the honor it gave them chent tile fact remains that this letter still stands as a classic of prose rind and as 1166 n has baa said the facts tit in thee age can detract nothing front from the ilia noble aind lc ic spirit of Abr abraham aliani lincoln the latest lincoln legend that mr air barton has dispelled la Is in regard to tin the sleeping sent sentinel inet sentenced to bo be shot allot lincoln Is IR cald to have pardoned the story satorv book version of tile the affair has bar lincoln riding out nt at dawn to stop tile the sitting down lit in it tent with tile the boy t looking at al the of tile young sol ailers widowed mother und hearing the boys grute grateful ful offer to mortgage the old farm and repay the hu prudent fur for saving his life then it has bus tle tile boy mortally wounded in battle later inter delivering a n lung long to isis ills coul coin rades uttering a preyer for abraham lincoln und and sending it dying alesa message to the th president si dent the only tiling thing the mutter with alio hi atory says parton Ildr ton Is that tant it Is nil all wrong william scott of company 1 K 1 of tin tilt third vermont who hod bad leen ns as onu one of three soldiers kirs guarding tile the chain bridge over tl tte 1 polo att nine iu UH found sleeping le elling on it his post on oil the night of if 30 lio wim routt coutt and sentenced to be shot phot monday g september 9 the sentence how however wits it bluet and intended by brig oan Will william tain F Si eanni ander of i tile he to thaw it n r cure into the brig side mid impress upon those volunteers the stern necessities of military life tile the bluff worked and a four page linge petit petition lan signed by tile the most of lie and begging clemency for scott wits waa presented to the lie brigade contin commander it n tier upon general smiths nien dation G general e mcclellan McClel hin issued issaca a pardon lincoln lind had little or nothing to do with tile the cu case ae it Is s that lie was vas conc concerned eine d about the care ase and slin simply plY ha as a mutter matter of form ninde the request requel tt to Hc mcclellen McClell Clellan nn t that flat scotts life be ile he let the fact of tits request be known to impress upon tile the mold soldiers lers alie t he sort ss of scotts of tense for when tile the pardon was read reul before tile lie regiment tile the warning wits was uttered that hint fiort phort of the presidents request had saved this soldier anti and that hie president was not likely to do it again nor did tile the dramatic tent lent seene take place tile widowed mother did not exist hoth tit of scotts parents were living tit at tile tinie time part of the story atom about scotts later career Is true that part which fells fella of film hl death ite he was i mortally wounded at the battle of i lees mill april 10 and lied died the I 1 next day hut but he did riot not deliver a lying oration nor a prayer for the Pres president deriL the surgeon who attended him has stated that lie he was in a comatose to ae condition to tho the moment of tits hta death although lincoln was not directly responsible for saving tile life of tills this sleeping sentinel there was a gli blanar tillar campt caa later inter in ili the war in which lie he did exercise this clemency in january 1864 1 henry C Q fuller of company 0 one Itt hundred indred and etith new york volunteers was sentenced to lc im shot for falling asleep at tits bis p ot otte one of if hla his comrades rowland howland C Kello kellark Kel loRK gr happened to he writing to his fattier father congressman orlando ceilo gig of new york lit at tile the tine time rind in it a postscript post 0 th o hi hit letter told of tile Ken sentence tence hut chilt lintl had own boen bawd upon hla him friend hank orlando kellogg hild bud kuon known lincoln when bacall were in c wn con on arts ss in the 40 t and during tho the civil war they had renewed their heir ance tind hild fast friends illine upon of the ita ift tr ter congressman kellogg ant to the house even it at night to plead for fullers life according wc to fo the story tonyi hu he told the arcs ident that tins the lays abny of tile I 1 conr ann dred anti and g go to in war to be shot way lincoln decided to save rull cra alro mid tile bof iry which were carr eaird leil back to ti camp by charles Cl nule L hagar who lind had young it ID 4 letter to alp TIK allf arrived td jint in thim to art fal vent the ex ution |