Transcriber’s Notes:
Punctuation has been made consistent.
[p. 12]: Another version of this story (George B. Herbert, The Popular History of the Civil War in America, F. M. Lupton, Publisher, New York, 1885, p. 476) includes the following additional paragraph immediately after the paragraph that starts “Ward Lamon, when Lincoln had appointed him ...”.
“I am astonished at you, Ward,” said Mr. Lincoln; “you ought to have known better. Hereafter, when you have to hit a man, use a club and not your fist.”