The life and public services of Abraham Lincoln

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Birth and childhood -- Boyhood -- Early manhood -- Outline of principles and character -- Early military record: Black Hawk War -- Characteristics -- Election to the legislature ; Early anti-slavery record -- Location at the State Capitol: admittance to the bar -- Marriage ; Election to Congress -- Congressional record -- Kansas-Nebraska Bill ; Senatorial election -- Organization of the Republican Party -- Senatorial contest of Lincoln and Douglas -- Senatorial contest continued -- Republican candidate for presidency -- Nomination for President -- Result of the presidential election -- From Springfield to Washington ; Inauguration -- The great work of Lincoln's life ; Douglas for the Union -- Uprising of patriotism ; Our foreign relations -- California's loyalty to the Union -- Battle at Bull's Run ; Appointment of General McClellan -- General Scott retired ; The Trent Affair -- General McClellan's Peninsula Campaign -- General McClellan's failure -- General McClellan superseded ; Union success ; Stanton, Secretary of War -- Difference relative to slavery ; Republican principles -- The real cause of the rebellion ; The President's appeal -- Emancipation Proclamation -- Reasons for emancipation ; Battle of Gettysburg -- Lee's retreat ; Capture of Vicksburg ; Bragg's defeat -- Thirty-seventh Congress ; Financial policy ; Characteristic incidents -- Suspension of writs of Habeas corpus ; Arrests for disloyalty -- Vallandigham sent to his friends ; Albany meeting ; President's reply -- The Missouri Imbroglio ; Characteristic letters ; Election results -- The President's daily experience and inner life -- Thirty-eighth Congress ; President's message ; General Grant made Lieutenant-General -- Reconstruction measures -- Champion of the industrial classes -- Glimpses of Christian character -- Discontent and disquiet in the Republican Party -- President Lincoln's second nomination -- Presidential canvass, 1864 -- Result of the presidential contest -- Movements of Generals Grant and Sherman -- National affairs, close of 1864 -- Sherman's march through Georgia ; Defeat of Hood -- Passage of amendment abolishing slavery -- President's simplicity ; Charity and equanimity -- Peace Conference at Hampton Roads -- United States Sanitary and Christian Commissions -- President Lincoln's second inauguration -- Sherman's march through the Carolinas ; Fall of Richmond -- Evacuation of Richmond ; Lee's surrender -- Joy of the President and people ; Raising the old flag on Fort Sumpter -- Assassination of the President ; Funeral services at Washington -- From Washington to Springfield ; Funeral obsequies ; Remarks Monaghan, J. Lincoln bibliography Fish, D. Lincoln bibliography Book, bound in cloth 18
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