Washington in Lincoln’s time

Washington in 1862 as correspondent of the Sacramento Union, then the great news paper power of the Pacific coast. I remained there until after the close of the Civil War, and saw the beginning of the stormy presidential career of Andrew Johnson. During that momentous and interesting period of oar national history I wrote newspaper letters nearly every day; and these, preserved in volumes of scrap-books, with other materials carefully kept, form the basis of the following Several years before the war, while I was a resident of Illinois, I had made the acquaintance of Abraham Lincoln, then regarded as a rising prairie lawyer, and living in Sacramento.