privations, 17; education, 20;
death of his mother, 18; acts as
ferry-man, 25; characteristics and
habits in youth, 21, 22, 23, 25;
physical strength, 26, 33; early
literary efforts, 27; temperance,
26; earns a dollar, 29; personal ap-
pearance, 31; first public speech,
31; splitting rails, 31; postmaster,
43; Black Hawk Indian war-a
captain-quells a mutiny, 35-38;
love affairs, 45, 54; entrance into
political life, 41; becomes a mer-
chant, and studies law, 42; sur-
veying studies, 43; legal expe-
riences, 61, 62, 63; personal
popularity, 57; elected to legisla-
ture, 44, 45, 70; removal to
Mexican war, 59.
Mexico, the French in, 167.
NASBY, PETROLEUM V., 236.
Negroes, reception of, 204.
PEA Ridge, battle of, 138.
Port Hudson, surrender of, 162.
Privations in the South, 185.
Proclamation of April 15, 1861, 105.
Prosperity of the North, 180.
QUANTRILL'S guerillas, 170.
REBELLION, breaking out of, 91, 94;
progress of, 111.
Spring-Religion and irreligion, 55, 56.
Republican party, origin of, 72.
Richmond, fall of, 213.
Riot in New York, 165.
field, and practice of law, 53;
generosity, 57; enters Congress-
first speech, 58; Presidential can-
didate, 54; declines nomination to
the Senate, 70; "house-divided-
against-itself "speech, 75; nomina-
tion for Presidency, 79, 80, 81, 82;
lectures in New York and Eng-
land, 79, 80, 81; elected Presi-
dent, 85; address at Springfield,
89; inaugural speech, 97; first
Cabinet, 100; wise forbearance,
103; his mercy, 172, 175; second
election, 199; assassination, 225;
death, 227; funeral procession,
231; lying in state, 231; inter-
ment, 232; general summary of
character, 233-244; wit and
humour, 240, 241, 242.
Long Nine, the, 46, 47.
SANITARY fairs, 182.
Secession, 86, 87, 93.
Seward, W. A., refuses to meet the
Rebel Commissioners, 102.
Sherman's march, 188, 193.
Shiloh, battle of, 138.
Slavery-slave trade, 103; argument
against, 71; slave party, 64, 65.
Sumter, fall of Fort, 104.
Surrender of Confederate forces, 216.
TENNESSEE, the campaign in, 163.
Todd, Mary, 55.
UNION troops attacked, 106.
VIRGINIA'S secession, 109, 115.
M'Clellan, General, 115; apathy of, WAR, organisation of, 113.
MASON and Sliddell affair, 131.
Wilderness, battle of the, 192.
Wilmot's proviso, 66.
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