Abraham Lincoln
Subtitle: the prairie years and the war years
By: Carl Sandburg
Edition: 1-vol. ed.
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World
Published: 1954
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 762
Subjects: Presidents; Biography
Description: This biography is drawn from the six volume work on Lincoln and new research uncovered since the original publication.
Notes: Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 743-747.
Table of contents: title: Wilderness beginnings; title: New Salem days; title: The young legislator; title: Lawyer in Springfield; title: "I am going to be married"; title: Running for Congress; title: Congressman Lincoln; title: Back home in Springfield; title: Restless growing America; title: The deepening slavery issue; title: The great debates; title: Strange friend and friendly stranger; title: "Only events can make a president"; title: "Mary, we're elected"; title: The house dividing; title: "I bid you an affectionate farewell"; title: America whither? - Lincoln journey to Washington; title: Lincoln takes the oath as president; title: Sumter and war challenge - call for troops; title: Jefferson Davis - his government; title: Turmoil - fear - hazards; title: Bull run - McClellan - Fremont - the Trent affair; title: The politics of war - corruption; title: Donelson-Grant-Shiloh -monitor and Merrimac - "seven days" - the draft; title: Second bull run - bloody Antietam-chaos; title: The involved slavery issue - preliminary Emancipation Proclamation; title: McClellan's "slows" - election losses - Fredericksburg - '62 message; title: ^; title: Thunder over the cabinet - Murfreesboro; title: Final Emancipation Proclamation, '63; title: "More horses than oats" - office seekers; title: Hooker - Chancellorsville - calamity; title: Will Grant take Vicksburg?; title: Deep shadows - Lincoln in early '63; title: The man in the White House; title: Gettysburg - Vicksburg siege - deep tides, '63; title: Lincoln at storm center; title: Chickamauga - elections won, '63; title: Lincoln speaks at Gettysburg; title: Epic '63 draws to a close; title: Grant given high command, '64; title: Will his party renominate Lincoln?; title: Jay Cooke - cash for war - hard times and flush; title: Chase thirsts to run for president; title: Spring of '64 - blood and anger; title: Grant's offensive, '64 - free press - Lincoln visits the army; title: The Lincoln-Johnson ticket of the National Union Party; title: Washington on the defensive - peace babblings; title: "The darkest month of the war" - August '64; title: The fierce fall campaign of '64; title: Lincoln's laughter - and his religion; title: The pardoner; title: The man who had become the issue; title: ^; title: Election day, November 8, 1864; title: Lincoln names a chief justice; title: The "lost army" - the South in fire and blood - war prisons; title: The bitter year of '64 comes to a close; title: "Forever free" - the thirteenth amendment; title: Heavy smoke - dark smoke; title: The second inaugural; title: Endless executive routine; title: Lincoln visits Grant's army - Grant breaks Lee's line; title: Richmond falls - appomattox; title: "Not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart"; title: Negotiations - an ominous dream; title: The calendar says Good Friday; title: Blood on the moon; title: Shock - the assassin - a stricken people; title: A tree is best measure when it's down; title: Vast pageant - then great quiet.