A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln | Page 2

McClellan--News from the West--Death of Willie Lincoln--The Harper's Ferry Fiasco--President's War Order No. 3--The News from Hampton Roads--Manassas Evacuated--Movement to the Peninsula--Yorktown--The Peninsula Campaign--Seven Days' Battles--Retreat to Harrison's Landing
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Jackson's Valley Campaign--Lincoln's Visit to Scott--Pope Assigned to Command--Lee's Attack on McClellan--Retreat to Harrison's Landing--Seward Sent to New York--Lincoln's Letter to Seward--Lincoln's Letter to McClellan--Lincoln's Visit to McClellan--Halleck Made General-in-Chief--Halleck's Visit to McClellan--Withdrawal from Harrison's Landing--Pope Assumes Command--Second Battle of Bull Run--The Cabinet Protest--McClellan Ordered to Defend Washington--The Maryland Campaign--Battle of Antietam--Lincoln visits Antietam--Lincoln's Letter to McClellan--McClellan Removed from Command
XXIII
Cameron's Report--Lincoln's Letter to Bancroft--Annual Message on Slavery--The Delaware Experiment--Joint Resolution on Compensated Abolishment--First Border State Interview--Stevens's Comment--District of Columbia Abolishment--Committee on Abolishment--Hunter's Order Revoked--Antislavery Measures of Congress--Second Border State Interview--Emancipation Proposed and Postponed
XXIV
Criticism of the President for his Action on Slavery--Lincoln's Letters to Louisiana Friends--Greeley's Open Letter--Mr. Lincoln's Reply--Chicago Clergymen Urge Emancipation--Lincoln's Answer--Lincoln Issues Preliminary Proclamation--President Proposes Constitutional Amendment--Cabinet Considers Final Proclamation--Cabinet Discusses Admission of West Virginia--Lincoln Signs Edict of Freedom--Lincoln's Letter to Hodges
XXV
Negro Soldiers--Fort Pillow--Retaliation--Draft--Northern Democrats--Governor Seymour's Attitude--Draft Riots in New York--Vallandigham--Lincoln on his Authority to Suspend Writ of Habeas Corpus--Knights of the Golden Circle--Jacob Thompson in Canada
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Burnside--Fredericksburg--A Tangle of Cross-Purposes--Hooker Succeeds Burnside--Lincoln to Hooker--Chancellorsville--Lee's Second Invasion--Lincoln's Criticisms of Hooker's Plans--Hooker Relieved--Meade--Gettysburg--Lee's Retreat--Lincoln's Letter to Meade--Lincoln's Gettysburg Address--Autumn Strategy--The Armies go into Winter Quarters
XXVII
Buell and Bragg--Perryville--Rosecrans and Murfreesboro--Grant's Vicksburg Experiments--Grant's May Battles--Siege and Surrender of Vicksburg--Lincoln to Grant--Rosecrans's March to Chattanooga--Battle of Chickamauga--Grant at Chattanooga--Battle of Chattanooga--Burnside at Knoxville--Burnside Repulses Longstreet
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Grant Lieutenant-General--Interview with Lincoln--Grant Visits Sherman--Plan of Campaigns--Lincoln to Grant--From the Wilderness to Cold Harbor--The Move to City Point--Siege of Petersburg--Early Menaces Washington--Lincoln under Fire--Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley
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Sherman's Meridian Expedition--Capture of Atlanta--Hood Supersedes Johnston--Hood's Invasion of Tennessee--Franklin and Nashville--Sherman's March to the Sea--Capture of Savannah--Sherman to Lincoln--Lincoln to Sherman--Sherman's March through the Carolinas--The Burning of Charleston and Columbia--Arrival at Goldsboro--Junction with Schofield--Visit to Grant
XXX
Military Governors--Lincoln's Theory of Reconstruction--Congressional Election in Louisiana--Letter to Military Governors--Letter to Shepley--Amnesty Proclamation, December 8, 1863--Instructions to Banks--Banks's Action in Louisiana--Louisiana Abolishes Slavery--Arkansas Abolishes Slavery--Reconstruction in Tennessee--Missouri Emancipation--Lincoln's Letter to Drake--Missouri Abolishes Slavery--Emancipation in Maryland--Maryland Abolishes Slavery
XXXI
Shaping of the Presidential Campaign--Criticisms of Mr. Lincoln--Chase's Presidential Ambitions--The Pomeroy Circular--Cleveland Convention--Attempt to Nominate Grant--Meeting of Baltimore Convention--Lincoln's Letter to Schurz--Platform of Republican Convention--Lincoln Renominated--Refuses to Indicate Preference for Vice-President--Johnson Nominated for Vice-President--Lincoln's Speech to Committee of Notification--Reference to Mexico in his Letter of Acceptance--The French in Mexico
XXXII
The Bogus Proclamation--The Wade-Davis Manifesto--Resignation of Mr. Chase--Fessenden Succeeds Him--The Greeley Peace Conference--Jaquess-Gilmore Mission--Letter of Raymond--Bad Outlook for the Election--Mr. Lincoln on the Issues of the Campaign--President's Secret Memorandum--Meeting of Democratic National Convention--McClellan Nominated--His Letter of Acceptance--Lincoln Re?lected--His Speech on Night of Election--The Electoral Vote--Annual Message of December 6, 1864--Resignation of McClellan from the Army
XXXIII
The Thirteenth Amendment--The President's Speech on its Adoption--The Two Constitutional Amendments of Lincoln's Term--Lincoln on Peace and Slavery in his Annual Message of December 6, 1864--Blair's Mexican Project--The Hampton Roads Conference
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Blair--Chase Chief Justice--Speed Succeeds Bates--McCulloch Succeeds Fessenden--Resignation of Mr. Usher--Lincoln's Offer of $400,000,000--The Second Inaugural--Lincoln's Literary Rank--His Last Speech
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Depreciation of Confederate Currency--Rigor of Conscription--Dissatisfaction with the Confederate Government--Lee General-in-Chief--J.E. Johnston Reappointed to Oppose Sherman's March--Value of Slave Property Gone in Richmond--Davis's Recommendation of Emancipation--Benjamin's Last Despatch to Slidell--Condition of the Army when Lee took Command--Lee Attempts Negotiations with Grant--Lincoln's Directions--Lee and Davis Agree upon Line of Retreat--Assault on Fort Stedman--Five Forks--Evacuation of Petersburg--Surrender of Richmond--Pursuit of Lee--Surrender of Lee--Burning of Richmond--Lincoln in Richmond
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Lincoln's Interviews with Campbell--Withdraws Authority for Meeting of Virginia Legislature--Conference of Davis and Johnston at Greensboro--Johnston Asks for an Armistice--Meeting of Sherman and Johnston--Their Agreement--Rejected at Washington--Surrender of Johnston--Surrender of other Confederate Forces--End of the Rebel Navy--Capture of Jefferson Davis--Surrender of E. Kirby Smith--Number of Confederates Surrendered and Exchanged--Reduction of Federal Army to a Peace Footing--Grand Review of the Army
XXXVII
The 14th of April--Celebration at Fort Sumter--Last Cabinet Meeting--Lincoln's Attitude toward Threats of Assassination--Booth's Plot--Ford's Theater--Fate of the Assassins--The Mourning Pageant
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Lincoln's Early Environment--Its Effect on his Character--His Attitude toward Slavery and the Slaveholder--His Schooling in Disappointment--His Seeming Failures--His Real Successes--The Final Trial--His Achievements--His Place in History
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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Ancestry--Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks--Rock Spring Farm--Lincoln's Birth--Kentucky Schools--The Journey to Indiana--Pigeon Creek Settlement--Indiana Schools--Sally Bush Lincoln--Gentryville--Work and Books--Satires and Sermons--Flatboat Voyage to New Orleans--The Journey to Illinois
Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States, was born in a log cabin in the backwoods of Kentucky on the 12th day of February 1809. His father, Thomas Lincoln, was sixth in direct line of descent from Samuel Lincoln, who emigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1638. Following the prevailing drift of American settlement, these descendants had, during a century and a half, successively moved from Massachusetts to New Jersey, from New Jersey to Pennsylvania, from Pennsylvania to Virginia, and from Virginia to Kentucky; while collateral branches of the family eventually made homes in other parts of the West. In Pennsylvania and Virginia some of them had acquired considerable property and local