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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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.