This powerful and poetic head of Lincoln, by Gutzon Borglum, which
deeply impressed the emancipator’s living son, has been presented to
Congress by Eugene Meyer, Jr., of New York]
Presently the New Yorkers, who had rebuilt the tracks and bridges from
Annapolis on, marched into Washington, and within a week Lincoln had
seventeen thousand soldiers in the city.
It was this terror of losing Washington that persuaded Lincoln to
withdraw McDowell’s forty thousand men from McClellan when his army was
within sight of Richmond.