The homes of America : with one hundred and three illustrations (1879)
Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893 · New York : D. Appleton and Company, 549 and 551 Broadway · leaf 115
)ect of men twice hisage and experience. He rendered most valuable assistance in the building ofthe curious fabric, so strong and so weak, so vague and so peculiar, which wecall the American Republic, and which has been, in spite of its mistakes, so … marvelously successful. He liecame a w-avux fiiciid of Washington, a vigorousmember of Congress, chairman of three committees for carrying on the war—theConunissaryX Quartermasters, and Medical Department—and in a multiplicityof ways displayed an energy that was simply gigantic. He wrote essays on…
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