Abraham Lincoln
Subtitle: a history : the full and authorized record of his private life and public career
By: by John G. Nicolay and John Hay ; with the assistance of Robert Todd Lincoln and the private papers and manuscripts in his possession.
Contributors: Hay, John, 1838-1905, joint author.; Lincoln, Robert Todd, 1843-1926.; American Historical Foundation.
Edition: Sponsors' ed.
Publisher: American Historical Foundation
Published: 1914
Place of publication: [U.S.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Presidents -- United States -- Biography; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; United States -- Politics and government -- 1857-1861; United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865
Genres: Biography.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Lineage; title: Indiana; title: Illinois in 1830; title: New Salem; title: Lincoln in the Black Hawk War; title: Surveyor and representative; title: Legislative experience; title: The Lincoln-Stone experience; title: Collapse of "The system"; title: Early law practice; title: Marriage; title: The Shields duel; title: The campaign of 1844; title: Lincoln's campaign for Congress; title: The Thirtieth Congress; title: A fortunate escape; title: The Circuit lawyer; title: The balance of power; title: Repeal of the Missouri Compromise; title: The drift of politics; title: Lincoln and Trumbull; title: The Border Ruffians; title: The bogus laws; title: The Topeka Constitution; title: Civil War in Kansas; title: v. 2. Jefferson Davis on rebellion; title: The Conventions of 1856; title: Congressional Ruffianism; title: The Dred Scott decision; title: Douglas and Lincoln on Dred Scott; title: The Lecompton Constitution; title: The revolt of Douglas; title: The Lincoln-Douglas debates; title: The  Freeport Doctrine; title: Lincoln's Ohio speeches; title: Harper's Ferry; title: Lincoln's Cooper Institute speech; title: The Charleston Convention; title: The Baltimore nominations; title: The Chicago Convention; title: Lincoln elected; title: Beginnings of rebellion; title: The Cabinet cabal; title: From the ballot to the bullet; title: Major Anderson; title: The Charleston Forts; title: The President's message; title: The Charleston conspirators; title: Mr. Buchanan's truce; title: The retirement of Cass; title: The Senate committee of thirteen; title: The House committee of thirty-three; title: The conspiracy proclaimed; title: The forty muskets; title: v. 3. South Carolina secession; title: Personal liberty bills; title: The surrender programme; title: Fort Sumter; title: A blundering commission; title: The Cabinet régime; title: The "Star of the West"; title: Anderson's truce; title: The military situation at Charleston; title: The national defense; title: The Sumter and Pickens truce; title: The cotton "republics"; title: The Montgomery Confederacy; title: Failure of compromise; title: The constitutional amendment; title: The president-elect; title: Stephens's speech; title: Questions and answers; title: Springfield to Washington; title: Lincoln's secret night journey; title: Lincoln's inauguration; title: Lincoln's Cabinet; title: The question of Sumter; title: The rebel game; title: Virginia; title: Premier or president; title: v. 4. Fort Pickens reinforced; title: The Sumter expedition; title: The fall of Sumter; title: The call to arms; title: The national uprising; title: Baltimore; title: Washington in danger; title: Rebellious Maryland; title: Texas; title: The Ohio Line; title: Missouri; title: Kentucky; title: The Confederate Military League; title: Civil War; title: European neutrality; title: McClellan and Grant; title: Scott's Anaconda; title: The advance; title: West Virginia; title: Bull Run; title: Congress; title: The contraband; title: Frémont; title: Military emancipation; title: The Army of the Potomac; title: v. 5. Hatters and Port Royal; title: The "Trent" affair; title: The Tennessee Line; title: East Tennessee; title: Halleck; title: Lincoln directs Cooperation; title: Grant and Thomas in Kentucky; title: Cameron and Stanton; title: Plans of campaign; title: Manassas evacuated; title: Fort Donelson; title: Compensated abolishment; title: "Monitor" and "Merrimac"; title: Roanoke Island; title: Farragut's victory; title: New Orleans; title: Pea Ridge and Island No. 10; title: The Shiloh Campaign; title: Halleck's Corinth Campaign; title: Yorktown; title: From Williamsburg to Fair Oaks; title: Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign; title: The Seven Days' Battles; title: Harrison's landing; title: v. 6. Pope's Virginia Campaign; title: Mexico; title: Diplomacy of 1862; title: Meditation declined; title: Signs of the times; title: Emancipation proposed and postponed; title: Antietam; title: Emancipation announced; title: The removal of McClellan; title: Fredericksburg; title: Financial measures; title: Seward and Chase; title: Perryville and Murfreesboro; title: West Virginia admitted; title: Lincoln and the churches; title: Military governors; title: Colonization; title: Missouri guerrillas and politics; title: The Edict of freedom; title: Negro soldiers; title: Retaliation; title: v. 7. The enrollment and the draft; title: The Lincoln-Seymour correspondence; title: Du Pont before Charleston; title: Chancellorsville; title: Preludes to the Vicksburg Campaigns; title: The Campaign of the Bayous; title: Grant's May battles in Mississippi; title: The invasion of Pennsylvania; title: Gettysburg; title: Vicksburg; title: Port Hudson; title: Vallandigham; title: The defeat of the Peace Party at the polls; title: Maximillian; title: Fort Wagner; title: Prisoners of war; title: v. 8. Conspiracies in the North; title: Habeas Corpus; title: The march to Chattanooga; title: Chickamauga; title: Chattanooga; title: Burnside in Tennessee; title: Lincoln's Gettysburg Address; title: Missouri radicals and conservatives; title: The line of the Rapidan; title: Foreign relations in 1863; title: Olustee and the Red River; title: The Pomeroy Circular; title: Grant General-in-Chief; title: The wilderness; title: Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor; title: Arkansas free; title: Louisiana free; title: Tennessee free; title: Maryland free; title: Missouri free; title: v. 9. Sherman's Campaign to the Chattahoochee; title: The Cleveland Convention; title: Lincoln renominated; title: The resignation of Mr. Chase; title: The Wade-Davis Manifesto; title: The last days of the rebel navy; title: Early's Campaign against Washington; title: Horace Greeley's peace mission; title: The Jaquess-Gilmore Mission; title: Mobile Bay; title: The Chicago surrender; title: Atlanta; title: Sheridan in the Shenandoah; title: Cedar Creek; title: Cabinet changes; title: Lincoln reelected; title: Chase as Chief-Justice; title: Petersburg; title: Reconstruction; title: The March to the Sea; title: v. 10. Franklin and Nashville; title: The Albemarle; title: Fort Fisher and Wilmington; title: The Thirteenth Amendment; title: Blair's Mexican project; title: The Hampton Roads Conference; title: The Second Inaugural; title: Five Forks; title: Appomattox; title: The fall of the rebel capital; title: Lincoln in Richmond; title: Johnston's surrender; title: The capture of Jefferson Davis; title: The fourteenth of April; title: The fate of the assassins; title: The mourning pageant; title: The end of rebellion; title: Lincoln's fame.