Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, 1847-1865. Ward Hill Lamon

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       Ward Hill Lamon

      Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, 1847-1865

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066128623

Table of Contents

       INDEX OF LETTERS.

       MEMOIR OF WARD H. LAMON.

       RECOLLECTIONS

       OF

       ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

       CHAPTER I.

       EARLY ACQUAINTANCE.

       CHAPTER II.

       JOURNEY FROM SPRINGFIELD TO WASHINGTON.

       CHAPTER III.

       INAUGURATION.

       CHAPTER IV.

       GLOOMY FOREBODINGS OF COMING CONFLICT.

       CHAPTER V.

       HIS SIMPLICITY.

       CHAPTER VI.

       HIS TENDERNESS.

       CHAPTER VII.

       DREAMS AND PRESENTIMENTS.

       CHAPTER VIII.

       THE HUMOROUS SIDE OF HIS CHARACTER.

       CHAPTER IX.

       THE ANTIETAM EPISODE.—LINCOLN'S LOVE OF SONG.

       CHAPTER X.

       HIS LOVE OF CHILDREN.

       CHAPTER XI.

       THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE GETTYSBURG SPEECH.

       CHAPTER XII.

       HIS UNSWERVING FIDELITY TO PURPOSE.

       CHAPTER XIII.

       HIS TRUE RELATIONS WITH McCLELLAN.

       CHAPTER XIV.

       HIS MAGNANIMITY.

       CHAPTER XV.

       CABINET COUNSELS.

       CHAPTER XVI.

       CONFLICT BETWEEN CIVIL AND MILITARY AUTHORITY.

       CHAPTER XVII.

       PLOTS AND ASSASSINATION.

       APRIL 14

       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.

INDEX OF LETTERS.

       Table of Contents

      Black, Jeremiah S., 329 Briggs, Jas. A., 300 Catron, J., 330 Davis, David, xxxii, 317, 324 Doubleday, A., 326 Douglas, S. A., 319 Faulkner, Chas. J., 327 Fell, Jesse W., 11 Field, Eugene, xxxv