Life of Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of the United States

containing his early history and political career; together with the speeches, messages, proclamations, and other official documents illustrative of his eventful administration

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Life of Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of the United States

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W.H. Harrison
Language
English
Pages
476

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Chicago, Ill

Table of Contents

Boyhood and early manhood
In Congress and on the stump
Before the nation
Nominated and elected President
To Washington
The new administration
Preparing for war
The first session of Congress
Close of 1861
The Congress of 1861-62
The slavery question
The Peninsular Campaign
Freedom to millions
Last session of the Thirty-seventh Congress
The tide turned
Letters and speeches
The Thirty-eighth Congress
Progress
Renominated
Reconstruction
Presidential campaign of 1864
Re-elected
Tightening the lines
In Richmond
The last act
The man
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)
Speech on internal improvements, (in Congress, June 20, 1848)
Speech on the presidency and general politics, (in Congress, July 27, 1848)
Speech in reply to Mr. Douglas, on Kansas, the Dred Scott Decision, and the Utah question, (at Springfield, June 26, 1857)
Speech in reply to Senator Douglas, (at Chicago, July 10, 1858)
Opening passages of his speech at Freeport
Letter to Gen. McClellan
Letter to Gen. Schofield relative to the removal of Gen. Curtis
Three hundred thousand men called for
Rev. Dr. McPheeters, President's reply to an appeal for interference
An election ordered in the state of Arkansas
Letter to William Fishback on the election in Arkansas
Call for the five hundred thousand men
Letter to Mrs. Gurney
The Tennessee Test Oath.

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Correspondence., Biography.

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476 p. :
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476

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OL24158886M
Internet Archive
lifeofabrahamlin97cros
OCLC/WorldCat
40625848

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