Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Publisher: [The Century Co.]
Published: 1908
Place of publication: [New York, N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 900
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Generals -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Generals -- United States -- Biography; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives
Genres: Biography.; Personal narratives.
Other titles: Century illustrated monthly magazine.; Harper's monthly magazine.
Description: A compilation of articles, poetry, and correspondence selected from The century magazine, Harper's monthly magazine, Hampton's magazine, and Uncle Sam's magazine.
Notes: Title from spine.

Includes Memoranda on the Civil War: letters to readers from featured correspondents and authors arguing points of content, etc. ; these pieces are interspersed among the other content of the compilation.

Bound in cloth, with embossed gold lettering on spine, and colored illustrations affixed to front lining papers; an unattributed poem affixed to rear lining paper.
Table of contents: title: Hora christi / Alice Brown; title: The Old Dominion / Thomas Nelson Page; title: Abraham Lincoln, a history: the President-elect at Springfield / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay; title: Grant's last campaign / Horace Porter; title: The movement against Petersburg / E.P. Alexander; title: The end / Robert Gilbert Welsh; title: Abraham Lincoln, a history: Lincoln's inauguration / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay; title: Abraham Lincoln, a history: the formation of the cabinet / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay; title: The old band / James Whitcomb Riley; title: The grand strategy of the war of the rebellion / W.T. Sherman; title: Values / Richard E. Burton; title: The closing scene at Appomattox Court House / George A. Forsyth; title: An Australian cradle-song / by John Harrison Wagner; title: Abraham Lincoln, a history: Premier or President? / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay; title: Under the foam / Charlotte Fiske Bates; title: Abraham Lincoln, a history: The call to arms / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay; title: An Eastern legend / Charlotte W. Thurston; title: A far cry to heaven / Edith M. Thomas; title: Eve / W.J. Henderson; title: Colonel Rose's tunnel at Libby Prison / Frank E. Moran; title: The roads that meet / Rose Hawthorne Lathrop; title: Two Kentucky gentlemen of the old school / James Lane Allen; title: Marse Phil / Thomas Nelson Page; title: Abraham Lincoln, a history: the national uprising / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay; title: Love's imagining / Hopestill Goodwin; title: Lucina / Edith M. Thomas; title: Abraham Lincoln, a history: The border states / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay; title: From out eternal silence do we come / Stuart Sterne; title: The personality of Leo XIII / Maurice Francis Egan; title: The chances of being hit in battle: a study of regimental losses in the Civil War / William F. Fox; title: The mask / Elyot Weld; title: Abraham Lincoln, a history: the advance, Bull Run, Fremont, [and] military emancipation / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay; title: Abraham Lincoln, a history: Lincoln and McClellan / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay; title: Bird music: sparrows / Simeon Pease Cheney; title: Matthew Arnold / William P. Andrews; title: Waiting for the bugle / Thomas Wentworth Higginson; title: The high tide at Gettyburg / Will H. Thompson; title: The career of the Confederate ram Albemarle. Her construction and service / Gilbert Elliott; title: The Albemarle and the Sassacus: an attempt to run down an iron-clad with a wooden ship / Edgar Holden; title: The destruction of the Albemarle / W.B. Cushing; title: Note on the destruction of the Albemarle / A.F. Warley; title: A note of peace: reunions of the blue and the gray / George L. Kilmer; title: The knight in silver mail / Minna Irving; title: Abraham Lincoln, a history: Tennessee and Kentucky / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay; title: Abraham Lincoln, a history: The Mississippi and Shiloh / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay; title: Hard times in the Confederacy / A.C. Gordon; title: Abraham Lincoln, a history: Plans of campaign / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay; title: As a bell in a chime / Robert Underwood Johnson; title: A lake memory / William Wilfred Campbell; title: Abraham Lincoln, a history: Jackson's Valley campaign, and the Seven Days' battle / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay; title: O ye sweet heavens! / T.W. Parsons; title: Army hospitals and cases / Walt Whitman; title: Restlessness / Emma Lazarus; title: American machine cannon and dynamite guns / William R. Hamilton; title: Abraham Lincoln, a history: First plans for emancipation / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay; title: Abraham Lincoln, a history: The announcement of Emancipation / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay; title: A regret / Agnes Maule Machar; title: The all-kind mother / James Whitcomb Riley; title: Abraham Lincoln, a history: The removal of McClellan ; Financial measures ; Seward and Chase / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay; title: Abraham Lincoln, a history: the edict of freedom / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay; title: The color line / Alfred Damon Runyon; title: Abraham Lincoln, a history: Retaliation ; The enrollment and the draft/ by John G. Nicolay and John Hay; title: Temptation / Edith Willis Linn; title: The close of Lincoln's career / Noah Brooks; title: Unanswered / Charles Buxton Going; title: Abraham Lincoln, a history: The President and the draft ; Vallandigham ; The Peace Party at the polls / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay; title: The western soldier / Henry King; title: General Lee after the war / Margaret J. Preston; title: Can the emperor forget? / Louise Morgan Smith; title: Abraham Lincoln, a history: The Pomeroy circular ; The Cleveland convention ; The resignation of Chase / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay; title: On the Indiana reservations / Frederic Remington; title: Casco Bay / Benjamin S. Parker; title: Abraham Lincoln, a history: Lincoln renominated ; The Wade-Davis manifesto ; Horace Greeley's peace mission / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay; title: Something wrong / Julia G. Skinner; title: Across the fields to Anne / Richard E. Burton; title: Abraham Lincoln, a history: The Chicago surrender ; Conspiracies in the north ; Lincoln and the churches / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay; title: To a painter (J.E.B.) / Celia Thaxter; title: Abraham Lincoln, a history: Cabinet changes ; Lincoln reëlected ; Chase as Chief-justice / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay; title: Life / Louise Morgan-Smith; title: To George Kennan / Nathan Haskell Dole; title: Albemarle Cushing / James Jeffrey Roche; title: The poet / Richard E. Burton; title: Saint Mémin's portrait of Marshall / Joseph P. Bradley; title: Telegraphing in battle / J. Emmet O'Brien; title: Abraham Lincoln, a history: Blair's Mexican project ; The Hampton Roads conference ; The XIIIth Amendment / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay; title: War diary of a Union woman in the South / edited by G.W. Cable; title: Abraham Lincoln, a history: The second inaugural ; Five Forks ; Appomattox / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay; title: Abraham Lincoln, a history: The fall of the rebel capital ; Lincoln in Richmond / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay; title: With a copy of Shelley / Harriet Monroe; title: Garfield and Conkling / Amelia B. Edwards; title: The undertone / T.T. Munger; title: Abraham Lincoln, a history: The fourteenth of April ; The fate of the assassins ; The mourning pageant / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay; title: Pursuit and death of John Wilkes Booth / Edward P. Doherty; title: The winter fields / Charles G.D. Roberts; title: Abraham Lincoln, a history: The capture of Jefferson Davis ; The end of rebellion ; Lincoln's fame / by John G. Nicolay and John Hay; title: The life mask / Stuart Sterne; title: The cenotaph / James T. McKay; title: The biographers of Lincoln [fragment, unattributed]; title: Ode / George Edward Woodberry; title: Lincoln's literary experiments / John G. Nicolay; title: Old Dutch masters: Meyndert Hobbema (1638-1709) / T. Cole; title: My first and last balloon ascension / Robert V.V. Sewell; title: The death of Abraham Lincoln / by Ida M. Tarbell; title: Some recollections of John Wilkes Booth / Clara Morris; title: Home / Paul Kester; title: The capture, death, and burial of J. Wilkes Booth / Ray Stannard Baker; title: Four Negro songs / John Charles McNeill; title: Characteristic glimpses of Lincoln / Cicero T. Sutton; title: Lincoln and Booth: a chronicle of their last days / Clara E. Laughlin; title: Lincoln's last day / William H. Crook; title: Exultation / Mary Eastwood Knevels; title: Ad myrtillam / Felix Carmen; title: How Wilkes Booth crossed the Potomac / George Alfred Townsend; title: Evening / John Vance Cheney; title: The shadow baby / Jennie E.T. Dowe; title: Lincoln's place in history / John Coleman Adams; title: Lincoln's Gettysburg address / John G. Nicolay; title: Battlefield of Gettysburg / John B. McPherson; title: The moon-flower / Julia Schayer; title: The national military park (embracing the Chickamauga and Chattanooga battle-fields) / H.V. Boynton; title: The battle of Chickamauga / Maurice Thompson.