Life of Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president of the United States
Subtitle: containing his early history and political career; together with the speeches, messages, proclamations and other official documents illustrative of his eventful administration
By: by Frank Crosby.
Publisher: J.E. Potter and Co.
Published: 1865
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 476
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Childhood and youth; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Political activity; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Oratory; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Correspondence; Presidents -- United States -- Biography; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865
Genres: Correspondence.; Biography.
Other titles: Life and public service of Abraham Lincoln
Table of contents: title: Boyhood and early manhood; title: In Congress and on the stump; title: Before the nation; title: Nominated and elected President; title: To Washington; title: The new administration; title: Preparing for war; title: The first session of Congress; title: Close of 1861; title: The Congress of 1861-62; title: The slavery question; title: The Peninsular Campaign; title: Freedom to millions; title: Last session of the Thirty-seventh Congress; title: The tide turned; title: Letters and speeches; title: The Thirty-eighth Congress; title: Progress; title: Renominated; title: Reconstruction; title: Presidential campaign of 1864; title: Re-elected; title: Tightening the lines; title: In Richmond; title: The last act; title: The man; title: Appendix. Mr. Lincoln's speeches in Congress and elsewhere, proclamations, letters, etc., not included in the body of the work: Speech on Mexican war, (in Congress, Jan. 12, 1848); title: Speech on internal improvements, (in Congress, June 20, 1848); title: Speech on the presidency and general politics, (in Congress, July 27, 1848); title: Speech in reply to Mr. Douglas, on Kansas, the Dred Scott Decision, and the Utah question, (at Springfield, June 26, 1857); title: Speech in reply to Senator Douglas, (at Chicago, July 10, 1858); title: Opening passages of his speech at Freeport; title: Letter to Gen. McClellan; title: Letter to Gen. Schofield relative to the removal of Gen. Curtis; title: Three hundred thousand men called for; title: Rev. Dr. McPheeters, President's reply to an appeal for interference; title: An election ordered in the state of Arkansas; title: Letter  to William Fishback on the election in Arkansas; title: Call for the five hundred thousand men; title: Letter to Mrs. Gurney; title: The Tennessee Test Oath.