Includes index Organization of the Military Telegraph Corps -- The War Department Telegraph Office -- Cipher-codes and messages -- Confederate cipher-codes and intercepted dispatches -- In the first-months of the war -- McClellan's disagreements with the administration -- Lincoln in touch with Army movements -- Eckert, Chief of the War Department Telegraph staff -- The first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation -- The Gettysburg and Vicksburg year -- Lincoln's tender treatment of Rosecrans -- A remarkable feat in railroad transportation -- Lincoln in every-day humor -- Lincoln's love for children -- A bogus proclamation -- Grant's Wilderness Campaign -- Lincoln under fire at Fort Stevens -- Cables and signals -- Lincoln's forebodings of defeat at the polls -- Conspirators in Canada -- The attempt to burn New York -- Grant's orders for the removal of Thomas -- The abortive peace conference at Hampton Roads -- Lincoln's last days -- The assassination -- Payne, the assassin -- Lincoln's manner contrasted with Stanton's Monaghan, J. Lincoln bibliography Oakleaf, J. Lincoln bibliography Bound in cloth; stamped in gold; frontispiece (Lincoln copy) 1 18