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Excerpt from Edwin McMasters Stanton: The Great War Secretary But it remained for our civil war to bring forward and develop a truly great war minister, one of heroic mold worthy to rank with the greatest men of his time, of all time! There were giants in those days and he easily measured up to them. Lincoln, Seward, Chase and Stanton were giants in the Cabinet, even as Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and Thomas were giants in the field. Farragut, Porter, Foote and Dupont ruled the wave, even as Sumner and Fessenden did the Senate; as Stevens and Colfax did the House. We Ohioans take a natural pride, a peculiar pleasure in recalling that Stanton was born upon our soil. Let us glance briefly at his early life here and elsewhere, and see how he came to be called at the eleventh hour into Buchanan's cabinet to assist in preserving the union; how he became Lincoln's great servant and right hand man; and how he initiated, carried forward and completed measures which crushed the rebellion and brought peace to our distracted country! Stanton, like Grant, Sherman and Sheridan, first saw the light of day in the Buckeye state. On Monday, December 19, 1814, a day turbulent, chilly and full of driving snow, he was born at Steuben ville, the first child of Dr. David and Lucy Norman Stanton. Samuel J. Tilden came into the world earlier in the year; Henry Ward Beecher, General Fremont and Stephen A. Douglas the year before. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.