<h3>A TIME THAT TRIED THE SOUL.</h3>
<p>It was the Pennsylvania governor, Curtin, who brought the bad news
from Fredericksburg battle-field, where Burnside was repulsed in
December, 1862.</p>
<p>"It was a terrible slaughter--the scene a veritable slaughter-pen."</p>
<p>This blunt trope stirred up Lincoln, who had been a pig-slaughterer
in his day, remember. He groaned, wrung his hands, and "took on" with
terrible agony of spirit.</p>
<p>"I remember his saying over and over again," says the governor:
"'What has God put me in this place for?'"
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