341
American party, 156

Anderson, Robert, in the Black Hawk
war, 59 in Fort Sumter, 256; sur-
render of, 258

Andrew, John A., Governor of Massa-
chusetts, 262

Antietam, battle of, 308
Appomattox, surrender at, 448
Arithmetical examples of Lincoln, 37
Arkansas, reply to call for troops,
262; Halleck in, 323
Arming the freedmen, 304
Armstrong, Jack, encounter with Lin-
coln, 51; Lincoln defends his son
on trial for murder, 127
Army of the Potomac, McClellan
commander of, 321; proposed re-
organization of, 335; ordered to
support Pope, 342; Lincoln visits,
356; at Gettysburg, 371; Sabbath-
breaking, 381; Grant's head-quar-
ters with, 389; Meade in command
of, 390; corps commanders of, 390;
battles of the Wilderness, 390; at
Appomattox, 448

Ashmun, George, chairman of Repub-
lican Convention of 1860, 198
Assassination, threats against Lincoln
before inauguration, 220
Atchison, David, in the
troubles, 145
Autobiography, Lincoln's, 165-167
Awakening on slavery question, 133

Kansas

coln, 76; Lincoln rescues, from
mob, 88; elected to Congress, 98;
friendship with Lincoln, 416
Baltimore, Sixth Massachusetts Regi-
ment fired on, 265

Banks, N. P., Governor of Massa-
chusetts, 263; under Pope, 341
Barn-burners, 109

Bateman, Newton, Lincoln's inter-
view with, 209

Beauregard, P. G. T., in command at
Charleston, 257; demands surrender
of Fort Sumter, 257; at Bull Run, 281
Bell and Everett nominated, 192
Berry, partner of Lincoln, 66
Big Bethel, Federal defeat at, 280
Bissell, W. H., Representative in
Congress from Illinois, 84
Black Hawk war, 57-61
Black, J. S., Attorney-General in
Buchanan's Cabinet, 212
Blair, F. P., Sr., house destroyed by
rebels, 394; visits Richmond, 406;
dismissed by Lincoln, 439
Blockade of Southern ports declared,
269

Bolin Greene, death of, 70

Bonds, six per cent., ordered, 360
Boone, Daniel, Kentucky pioneer, 8
Boonville, Lincoln attends court at, 33
Booth, J. W., 455

Breckenridge, Lincoln meets, at Boon-
ville, 34; John C., nominated for
President, 192

fornia, 206

Brown, John, in Kansas, 146
Browning, O. H., lawyer in Spring-
field, Ill., 83

Buchanan, Jas., nominated for Presi-
dent, 155; elected, 157; at Lin-
coln's inauguration, 244
Buell, D. C., in Kentucky, 351
Bull Run, first battle of, 279; second
battle of, 343

Burns' poems, Lincoln reads, 30
Burnside, A. E., at Roanoke Island,
323; succeeds McClellan, 349; at
the battle of Fredericksburg, 350;
arrests Vallandigham, 362, 363; in
Knoxville, 382

Butler, B. F., at Annapolis, 268;
Fortress Monroe, 278; Ship Island,
324; City point, 393
Butterfield, Daniel, despatch from
Army of Potomac, 358

C

Cabinet, Lincoln's, 247

Call for troops, 260; call and draft
ordered, 402

Cameron, Secretary of War, 434; pro-

poses to form negro regiments, 435;
appointed Minister to Russia, 436;
defended by Lincoln, 436
Camp, half-faced, 12
Cartwright, Peter, candidate for Con-
gress, 102

Cass, Lewis, in Black Hawk war, 61;
Lincoln's sarcasm concerning, 107;
nominated for President, III; Sec-
retary of State, 213
Chancellorsville, battle of, 357
Charleston, Ill., Lincoln's speech in,
173

Charleston, S. C., Democratic Con-
vention in 1860, 191; harbor fortifi-
cations, 213

Chase, S. P., favored by radical Re-
publicans, 385; his dissatisfaction,
437; resigns Treasury portfolio,
437; appointed Chief-Justice, 438
Chicago Convention, 1860, 192; Lin-
coln nominated by, 196; Hamlin
nominated by, 197

352

Clary's Grove boys, 51

Clay, Henry, Lincoln reads life of,
24; Lincoln's eulogy of, 32; de-
feated for President, 100; visited
by Lincoln, for

Cobb, Howell, Secretary of Treasury
in Buchanan's Cabinet, 212
Cochrane, John, nominated for Vice-
President, 398

Condition of people of the United
States in 1789, I

Confederacy, rebel, organized, 215
Confiscation of rebel property author-
ized by Congress, 359

Conscription, ordered, 359; riots in
New York, 374
"Contraband," first use of the word,
279

Cooper Institute, Lincoln's speech in,
185
Cooper's novels read by young Lin-
coln, 29

Crocodile, Douglas' figure of speech
of, 180

Curtin, A. G., Governor of Pennsyl-
vania, 263

D

Davis, David, lawyer in Springfield,
Ill., 84

Davis, Jefferson, elected Provisional
President of Confederacy, 216; his
threats against the North, 217;
plea for State sovereignty, 276,
286; represented at Niagara Falls
Conference, and visit from F. P.
Blair, Sr., 406 et seq.
Debt, public, in 1783, 2
Decatur County, Ill., Lincoln settles
in, 45

Deep snow, winter of, in Illinois, 46
Democatic Convention, of 1860, 191;
of 1864, 397; Breckenridge nomi-

nated by, 205; McClellan nomi-
nated by, 397

Dennison, Governor of Ohio, 263
Dix, John A., succeeds Howell Cobb
as Secretary of Treasury, 214
"Dixie," a national air, 235; cap-
tured, 391.

war, 60

Donelson, Fort, capture of, 322
Dorsey, Hazel, Lincoln's schoolmaster,
31

Douglas, Stephen A., a lawyer in
Springfield, Ill., 84; denounced for
pro-slavery sentiments, 134; speech
in Springfield, Ill., 137; with Lin-
coln in Peoria, 140; opens the joint
debate with Lincoln, 163; his early
history, 163; elected Senator, 176;
nominated for the presidency, 192;
on the stump in 1860, 200; at Lin-
coln's inauguration, 260; death of,
275

Draft, ordered, 359; riots in New
York, 374.

E

Early, rebel general, threatens Wash-
ington, 393

Electoral vote, 1856, 159; 1860, 200;
1864, 403

Elkin, Parson, border preacher, 8;
funeral sermon at Mrs. Lincoln's
burial, 22

Ellsworth, Elmer, death of, 273
Emancipation, proclamations of Fre-
mont and Hunter, 299; Lincoln's
message concerning same, 299;
Lincoln considers his proclamation,
308; it is issued, 308; full text of,
312-317

Ewell, rebel general, invades Pennsyl-
vania, 367

F

Farragut, Admiral, operations in
Gulf of Mexico, 324; at New Or-
leans, 324

Fessenden, W. P., accepts the Treas-
ury, 438

Fillmore and Donelson nominated,
156

Fisher, Fort, capture of, 444

Floyd, J. B., Secretary of War in
Buchanan's Cabinet, 212 at Fort
Donelson, 322

Forquer, Geo., Lincoln's encounter
with, 74

465

Free Soilers, organize, 110; Lincoln
leader of, 151

Fremont, John C., nominated for
President, 1856, 155; anti-slavery
views, 294; emancipation proclama-
tion, 295; popularity, 297; nomi-
nated for President, 1864, 398

G

"un-

Garfield, Jas. A., defeats rebel gen-
eral, H. Marshall, 322; report of
Lincoln's capture of Norfolk, 336
Gettysburg, battle of, 366; dedication
of cemetery at, 378
Grant, U. S., his rising, 322;
conditional surrender,' 322; cap-
ture of Forts Henry and Donelson,
322; at Vicksburg, 364; Lieut.-
General, 386; at the Rapidan, 389;
"fight it out on this line," 390;
suggested for the presidency, 395;
Lee seeks interview with, 444;
conference with Lincoln and Sher-
man, 445; envelops Lee's army,
447

Greeley, Horace, Lincoln's letter to,
306; favors a foreign arbitration,
354; opposes Lincoln, 395; at Ni-
agara Conference, 399

H

Hale, John P., comments on Trent
affair, 291

Half-faced camp, 12
Halleck, H. W., at Corinth, Miss.,
323; called to Washington, 341;
his warning to Meade, 371
Hamlin, Hannibal, nominated Vice-
President, 197

Hampton Roads Conference, 408
Hanks, Dennis, 20
Hanks, Nancy,

Hanks, Thomas, 44; helping Lincoln,

45; brings rails into convention, 183
Hardin, J. J., elected to Congress, 99
Harper's Ferry, seized by rebels, 272;

again in hands of rebels, 345
Harrison, Wm. Henry, nominated for
President, 87; elected, 95
Hatteras, Fort, capture of, 284

Hay, Col. John, at Niagara Falls
Conference, 400

Hazel, Caleb, Lincoln's schoolmaster,
7, 10

Henry, Fort, capture of, 322
Herndon, W. H., Lincoln's partner,
83; report of conversation with
Lincoln, 131

Holt, Joseph, Secretary of War, 214
Hood, rebel general, 392

Hooker, Joseph, criticises Burnside,
354; letter from Lincoln to, 355;
at Chancellorsville, 357; succeeded
by Meade, 367; in the West, 382
Hunter, David, his emancipation
Proclamation, 299; in the Valley of
the Shenandoah, 393

Lane, Jas. H., in Kansas, 145
Lecompton, pro-slavery capital of
Kansas, 148; or anti-Lecompton,
160

Lecture, Lincoln's, 96

Lee, rebel general, in Maryland, 308
seeks an interview with Grant, 444;
his surrender, 448

Lincoln, Abraham, born, 6; boy-
hood, 13; early labors, 17; his first
letter, 21; motherless, 23; his first
book, 23; his Weems' "Life of
Washington," 24; habit of reading
aloud, 26; his stepmother, 27-29;
reads Cooper's novels, 29; Burns'
poems, 30; love of reading, 30;
a wrestler, 31; eulogy of Henry
Clay, 32; mathematical studies, 32;
saves life of a neighbor, 33; at-
tends court at Boonville, 33; prac-
tises speech-making, 34; examples
in arithmetic, 36; builds a flat-
boat, 36; first earnings, 38; sec-
ond voyage down the Mississippi,
39; his bargain with Gentry, 39;
adventure with midnight maraud-
ers, 40; first view of slavery, 41;
stalwart young pioneer, 42; love
of story-telling, 42; settlement of
Lincolns in Illinois, 45; strikes out
for himself, 47; disaster at New
Salem, 48; his invention, 48; sec-
ond visit to the land of slavery, 49;
the Voudoo seeress, 49; settles in
New Salem, 50; encounter with
Jack Armstrong, 51; as a peace-
maker, 53; his newspaper reading,
54; studies grammar, 54; his first
law books, 56; candidate for Legis-
lature, 57; in the Black Hawk
war, 58-61; defeated for Legisla-
ture, 62; personal appearance as
young man, 64; buys a half inter-
est in a country store, 65; his stud-
ies, 67; appointed postmaster, 68;
settlement of an old account, 69;
elected to Legislature, 71;
elected, 73; tilt with Geo. For-
quer, 74; his political platform,
74; encounter with Col. Richard
Taylor, 75; the Lincoln-Stone pro-

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