Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States

About this eBook

Author

Crosby, Frank

Credits

Produced by Mark C. Orton, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

E456: History: America: Civil War period (1861-1865)

Subject

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Text

eBook-No.

44166

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44166

Release Date

November 12, 2013

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, SIXTEENTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES .
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
5. 5.CHAPTER I. BOYHOOD AND EARLY MANHOOD.
6. 6.CHAPTER II. IN CONGRESS AND ON THE STUMP.
7. 7.CHAPTER III. BEFORE THE NATION.
8. 8.CHAPTER IV. NOMINATED AND ELECTED PRESIDENT.
9. 9.CHAPTER V. TO WASHINGTON.
10. 10.CHAPTER VI. THE NEW ADMINISTRATION.
11. 11.CHAPTER VII. PREPARING FOR WAR.
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII. THE FIRST SESSION OF CONGRESS.
13. 13.CHAPTER IX. CLOSE OF 1861.
14. 14.CHAPTER X. THE CONGRESS OF 1861–2.
15. 15.CHAPTER XI. THE SLAVERY QUESTION.
16. 16.CHAPTER XII. THE PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN.
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII. FREEDOM TO MILLIONS.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIV. LAST SESSION OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
19. 19.CHAPTER XV. THE TIDE TURNED.
20. 20.CHAPTER XVI. LETTERS AND SPEECHES.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVII. THE THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVIII. PROGRESS.
23. 23.CHAPTER XIX. RENOMINATED.
24. 24.CHAPTER XX. RECONSTRUCTION.
25. 25.CHAPTER XXI. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1864.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXII. RE-ELECTED.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXIII. TIGHTENING THE LINES.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIV. IN RICHMOND.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXV. THE LAST ACT.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXVI. THE MAN.
31. 31.APPENDIX. — SPEECH ON THE MEXICAN WAR. — SPEECH ON INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS. — SPEECH ON THE PRESIDENCY AND GENERAL POLITICS. — SPEECH IN REPLY TO MR. DOUGLAS, ON KANSAS, THE DRED SCOTT DECISION, AND THE UTAH QUESTION. — SPEECH IN REPLY TO SENATOR DOUGLAS. — OPENING PASSAGES OF HIS SPEECH AT FREEPORT. — LETTER TO GENERAL McCLELLAN. — LETTER TO GEN. SCHOFIELD RELATIVE TO THE REMOVAL OF GEN. CURTIS. — THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN CALLED FOR. — REV. DR. M’PHEETERS​—​THE PRESIDENT’S REPLY TO AN APPEAL FOR INTERFERENCE. — AN ELECTION ORDERED IN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS. — CALL FOR FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN. — LETTER TO MRS. GURNEY. — THE TENNESSEE TEST OATH.
32. 32.Transcriber’s Notes

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