[Illustration: Harriet Beecher Stowe] MEN OF OUR TIMES; OR LEADING PATRIOTS OF THE DAY. BEING NARRATIVES OF THE LIVES AND DEEDS OF Statesmen, Generals, and Orators. INCLUDING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES AND ANECDOTES OF LINCOLN, GRANT, GARRISON, SUMNER, CHASE, WILSON, GREELEY, FARRAGUT, ANDREW, COLFAX, STANTON, DOUGLASS, BUCKINGHAM, SHERMAN, SHERIDAN, HOWARD, PHILLIPS AND BEECHER. BY HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, AUTHOR OF UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHTEEN STEEL PORTRAITS. PUBLISHED BY SUBSCRIPTION ONLY. HARTFORD PUBLISHING CO., HARTFORD, CONN. J. D. DENISON, NEW YORK; J. A. STODDARD, CHICAGO, ILL. 1868 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Connecticut. Electrotyped by LOCKWOOD & MANDEVILLE, HARTFORD, CONN. DEDICATION. To the Young Men Of America, THESE RECORDS OF THEIR ELDER BRETHREN IN THE REPUBLIC, ARE INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE. 1. PRESIDENT LINCOLN, FRONTISPIECE. 2. GEN. U. S. GRANT, 111 3. WILLIAM L. GARRISON, 154 4. CHARLES SUMNER, 214 5. SALMON P. CHASE, 241 6. HENRY WILSON, 269 7. HORACE GREELEY, 293 8. COM. D. G. FARRAGUT, 311 9. GOV. JOHN A. ANDREW, 325 10. SCHUYLER COLFAX, 347 11. E. M. STANTON, 363 12. FREDERICK DOUGLASS, 380 13. GEN. P. H. SHERIDAN, 405 14. GEN. W. T. SHERMAN, 423 15. GEN. OLIVER O. HOWARD, 447 16. GOV. WM. A. BUCKINGHAM, 463 17. WENDELL PHILLIPS, 483 18. REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER, 505 PREFACE. In these sketches of some of the leading public men of our times, the editor professes to give such particulars of their lives, and such only, as the public have a right to know. Every such man has two lives, his public and his private one. The one becomes fairly the property of the public, in virtue of his having been connected with events in which every one has a share of interest; but the other belongs exclusively to himself, his family, and his intimate friends, and the public have no more right to discuss or pry into its details than they have into those of any other private individual.