Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865

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Author

Lamon, Ward Hill, 1828-1893

Title

Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, 1847-1865

Credits

E-text prepared by Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries ( archive.org/details/americana)

Language

English

LoC Class

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

Subject

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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eBook-No.

39630

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39630

Release Date

May 5, 2012

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.E-text prepared by Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( http://www.pgdp.net ) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries ( http://archive.org/details/americana ) — RECOLLECTIONS of ABRAHAM LINCOLN
2. 2.WARD HILL LAMON
3. 3.PREFACE.
4. 4.PREFACE
5. 5.CONTENTS.
6. 6.INDEX OF LETTERS.
7. 7.MEMOIR OF WARD H. LAMON.
8. 8.ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
9. 9.CHAPTER I. — EARLY ACQUAINTANCE.
10. 10.CHAPTER II. — JOURNEY FROM SPRINGFIELD TO WASHINGTON.
11. 11.CHAPTER III. — INAUGURATION.
12. 12.CHAPTER IV. — GLOOMY FOREBODINGS OF COMING CONFLICT.
13. 13.CHAPTER V. — HIS SIMPLICITY.
14. 14.CHAPTER VI. — HIS TENDERNESS.
15. 15.CHAPTER VII. — DREAMS AND PRESENTIMENTS.
16. 16.CHAPTER VIII. — THE HUMOROUS SIDE OF HIS CHARACTER.
17. 17.CHAPTER IX. — THE ANTIETAM EPISODE.—LINCOLN'S LOVE OF SONG.
18. 18.CHAPTER X. — HIS LOVE OF CHILDREN.
19. 19.CHAPTER XI. — THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE GETTYSBURG SPEECH.
20. 20.CHAPTER XII. — HIS UNSWERVING FIDELITY TO PURPOSE.
21. 21.CHAPTER XIII. — HIS TRUE RELATIONS WITH McCLELLAN.
22. 22.CHAPTER XIV. — HIS MAGNANIMITY.
23. 23.CHAPTER XV. — CABINET COUNSELS.
24. 24.CHAPTER XVI. — CONFLICT BETWEEN CIVIL AND MILITARY AUTHORITY.
25. 25.CHAPTER XVII. — PLOTS AND ASSASSINATION.
26. 26.APRIL 14
27. 27.APPENDIX. — LINCOLN IN A LAW CASE. — MR. LINCOLN'S VIEWS OF THE AMERICAN OR KNOW-NOTHING PARTY. — ACCOUNT OF ARRANGEMENTS FOR COOPER INSTITUTE SPEECH. — THE RAIL-SPLITTER. — TEMPERANCE. — LINCOLN'S SHREWDNESS. — LETTERS. — RELIGION. — FOOTNOTES: — Transcriber's note:

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