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Lincoln’s Strangest Document: The “Blind Memorandum” of August 23, 1864

by Allen C. Guelzo 07.25.18

Lincoln and his cabinet, LN-2651 Abraham Lincoln’s mature style as a writer and speaker was always terse, with little wastage of words. He loathed blow-hards, and remarked to a legal protégé in Illinois that one Chicago merchant who had turned politician “can compress the most words in the fewest ideas of any man I ever […]