The life and times of Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president of the United States. Including his speeches, messages, inaugurals, proclamations, etc., etc. /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brockett, L. P. 1820-1893.
Corporate Author: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Rochester, N.Y. : Bradley & Co. ; R.H. Curran, 1865.
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Online Access:http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?c=darltext;view=toc;idno=31735054861152
http://books.google.co.uk/books?vid=BL:A0018673852
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Table of Contents:
  • Abraham Lincoln's boyhood in Kentucky
  • Abraham Lincoln's thirteen years in Indiana
  • Lincoln in Illinois, as a rail-splitter, a clerk, and a volunteer
  • Mr. Lincoln as a politician
  • Mr. Lincoln in Congress and "on the stump"
  • Abraham Lincoln's nomination and election to the presidency of the United States
  • The gathering storm in the southern political horizon
  • Mr. Lincoln's inaugural tour to Washington
  • From the inauguration to the extra session of Congress, July 4, 1861
  • The extra session of Congress, and the first unfoldings of the policy of Emancipation
  • The Emancipation Act
  • The military operations of the year 1862
  • The political and military events of the year 1863
  • The year 1863, and Mr. Lincoln's renomination for the presidency
  • From Mr. Lincoln's re-election to the conclusion of the war
  • The assassination and its effects upon the country
  • The funeral obsequies
  • Reminiscences and anecdotes of President Lincoln
  • Estimate of Mr. Lincoln's life, character, and works.