Birthplace -- A schoolboy -- The old home sold -- A new home made -- After game -- Darker days -- Brighter hours -- A new mother and schools -- Borrowing and what came of it -- Working and winning -- Upward and onward -- On the flatboat -- Sundry incidents -- Off to Illinois -- Another trip to New Orleans -- In a pioneer store -- Still a clerk -- On the war path -- Unsought honors -- Laurels won -- Successful lawyer -- The rising statesman -- Going up higher -- Life in the White House -- His great interest in soldiers -- His work for the colored people -- Still in the White House -- Shot of the assassin -- Funeral ceremonies -- Oration / Hon. George Bancroft Monaghan, J. Lincoln bibliography Fish, D. Lincoln bibliography Bound in cloth; frontispiece Copy 1: Loose frontispiece and t.p Copy 2 lacks ed. statement on t.p 18