Includes index Introduction / Allen Thorndike Rice -- General Ulysses S. Grant -- Hon. Elihu B. Washburne, Ex-Minister to France -- Hon. George W. Julian, Ex-Member of Congress -- Hon. R.E. Fenton, Ex-Governor of New York -- Hon. J.P. Usher, Ex-Secretary of the Interior -- Hon. George S. Boutwell, Ex-Secretary of the Treasury -- General Benjamin F. Butler, Ex-Governor of Massachusetts -- Charles Carlton Coffin, war correspondent of the "Boston Journal" -- Frederick Douglas, Ex-United States Marshal of the District of Columbia -- Judge Lawrence Weldon, U.S. Court of Claims -- Benjamin Perley Poore, Washington correspondent of the "Boston Journal" -- Titian J. Coffey, United States Assistant Attorney-General -- Rev. Henry Ward Beecher -- Hon. William D. Kelley, Member of Congress -- Hon. Cassius M. Clay, Ex-Minister to Russia -- Col. Robert G. Ingersoll -- A.H. Markland, Ex-Third-Assistant Postmaster-General -- Hon. Schuyler Colfax, Ex-Vice-President of the United States -- Hon. Daniel W. Voorhees, United States Senator for Indiana -- Hon. Charles A. Dana, editor "New York Sun" -- Hon. John A. Kasson, Ex-Minister to Austria -- General James B. Fry -- Hon. Hugh McCulloch, Ex-Secretary of the Treasury -- Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, President New York Central Railroad -- David R. Locke (Petroleum V. Nasby) -- Leonard Sweet (Lincoln's story of his own life) -- Walt Whitman -- Donn Piatt -- E.W. Andrews -- James C. Welling -- John Conness -- John B. Alley, Senator from Massachusetts -- Thomas Hicks, National Academician -- Biographical sketches Monaghan, J. Lincoln bibliography Book, cloth; frontispiece, spine broken 18