Includes index A chaotic beginning -- Haphazard migration -- Child-life in the wilderness -- The new elements -- A genuine start -- Borrowed treasures -- Frontier training -- Boy-of-all-work -- The flatboat -- "Of Illinois" -- A step upward -- The Blackhawk War -- Politics -- First love -- In the legislature -- Bubble legislation -- The young lawyer -- Manhood -- The coming conflict -- A great awakening -- The new party -- The coming man -- Political prophecy -- The rising tide -- Elected president -- Casus Belli -- President -- War -- The great uprising -- Over the long bridge -- The European question -- Bull Run -- The blockade -- Work with raw materials -- New national life -- President and general -- Dictator and Congress -- The Peninsular Campaign -- Military politics -- Drawn battles -- Emancipation -- The hardest blow -- The Trent Affair -- A dark winter -- Execution -- Dark days -- Night -- The turning point -- Thorns -- The beginning of the end -- The second nomination -- On trial -- The nation's verdict -- A valedictory -- At last -- Peace -- Appendix. Lincoln's speech at Springfield, Ill., June 17, 1858 -- Lincoln's speech at Cooper Institute, New York, February, 1860 -- Lincoln's letter to unconditional Union men, April, 1864 -- Lincoln's letter to Governor Bramlette of Kentucky, Washington, April 4, 1864 -- Tribute of London "Punch" to Abraham Lincoln, after assassination, May, 1865 Monaghan, J. Lincoln bibliography Oakleaf, J. Lincoln bibliography 18