99

83

88

115

Some of Lincoln's "Cases" and how He Treated

Them ....

The Lincoln-Shields Duel....

The Judge and the Drunken Coachman..

Why Mr. Lincoln Let His Whiskers Grow...

WHITE HOUSE INCIDENTS.

......

A Story Which Lincoln Told the Preachers.

An Irish Soldier Who Wanted Something Stronger

than Water ...

122

127

Ejecting a Cashiered Officer from the White House. 153

How Lincoln Stood up for the Word "Sugar-Coat-

ed.".

123

How Lincoln and Stanton Dismissed Applicants for

Office.....

How the Negroes Regarded "Massa Lincoln❞

Lincoln's Advice to a Prominent Bachelor.

Looking Out for Breakers.......

Whisky."

Lincoln's Confab with a Committee on "Grant's

131

Lincoln Wipes the Tears from his Eyes and Tells a

Stories Illustrating Lincoln's Memory

Seward and Chase...

Trying the "Greens" on Jake......

Telling a Story and Pardoning a Soldier..

Where the President's Mind Wandered....

129

167

121

162

141

An Interesting Incident Connected with Signing the

Emancipation Proclamation...

194

A Dream that was Portentous; What Lincoln said

to Gen. Grant Said About It..

175

"A Great Deal of Shuck for a Little Nubbin".

226

A Position that Lincoln Wanted..

228

An Inauguration Incident..

238

A Lincoln Story About Little Dan Webster's Soiled

Hands; How Dan Escaped a Flogging..

229

"Borrowing the Army..

178

D. L. Moody's Story of Lincoln's Compassion;

What a Little Girl Did with Mr. Lincoln to Save

her Brother....

231

Dr. Edwards Bumping the President..

236

Lincoln and the Colored People of Richmond..

Lincoln's First Convictions of War; His Great Sad-

218

ness....

220

Lincoln and a Clergyman.

224

Lincoln and the Little Baby; A Touching Story.... 230

Recollections of the War President by Judge Wil-
liam Johnson....

Story of Andy Johnson and his Doubtful Interest in

176

187

Prayers.

Sallie Ward's Practical Philosophy.

The Serpent in Bed with Two Children.

The President's Aversion to Bloodshed..

The President Advises Secretary Stanton to Prepare

for Death..

"Tad's" Rebel Flag...

The Brigadier General and the Horses...

Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Passes to Rich-
mond...

MISCELLANEOUS STORIES, ETC.

Attending Henry Ward Beecher's Church.

An Amusing Illustration..

171

175

198

212

225

227

238

216

243

249

Abraham Lincoln's Death; Walt Whitman's Vivid
Description of the Scene at Ford's Theater...... 281
Didn't Know his Own House; How Mrs. Lincoln
Surprised her Husband.....

How Lincoln Took his Altitude; A Prophetic Bowl
of Milk...

Lincoln's Failure as a Merchant; He, However, Six

Years Later Pays the "National Debt.".

247

Lincoln's Feat at the Washington Navy Yard with

an Axe....

248

How Lincoln won the Nomination for Congress.... 257

How Lincoln won a Case from his Partner.

263