Trials of the Administration in 1863--Hostility to War Measures--Lack of Confidence at the North--Opposition in Congress--How Lincoln Felt about the "Fire in the Rear"--Criticisms from Various Quarters--Visit of "the Boston Set"--The Government on a Tight-Rope--The Enlistment of Colored Troops--Interview between Lincoln and Frederick Douglass--Reverses in the Field--Changes of Military Leaders--From Burnside to Hooker--Lincoln's First Meeting with "Fighting Joe"--The President's Solicitude--His Warning Letter to Hooker--His Visit to the Rappahannock--Hooker's Self-Confidence the "Worst Thing about Him"--The Defeat at Chancellorsville--The Failure of Our Generals--"Wanted, a Man" CHAPTER XXV The Battle-Summer of 1863--A Turn of the Tide--Lee's Invasion of Pennsylvania--A Threatening Crisis--Change of Union Commanders--Meade Succeeds Hooker--The Battle of Gettysburg--Lincoln's Anxiety during the Fight--The Retreat of Lee--Union Victories in the Southwest--The Capture of Vicksburg--Lincoln's Thanks to Grant--Returning Cheerfulness--Congratulations to the Country--Improved State of Feeling at the North--State Elections of 1863--The Administration Sustained--Dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg--Lincoln's Address--Scenes and Incidents at the Dedication--Meeting with Old John Burns--Edward Everett's Impressions of Lincoln CHAPTER XXVI Lincoln and Grant--Their Personal Relations--Grant's Success at Chattanooga--Appointed Lieutenant-General--Grant's First Visit to Washington--His Meeting with Lincoln--Lincoln's First Impressions of Grant--The First "General" Lincoln had Found--"That Presidential Grub"--True Version of the Whiskey Anecdote--Lincoln Tells Grant the Story of Sykes's Dog--"We'd Better Let Mr. Grant Have His Own Way"--Grant's Estimate of Lincoln CHAPTER XXVII