CHAPTER

Contents

I. THE MAN and his KindRED

II.—THE LEADer of the Springfield Bar ..

III.-A GREAt Orator and HIS SPEECHES

IV.-A PRAIRIE POLITICIAN

V.-A PRESIDENT and his Cabinet.

VI. A COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF AND HIS GENERALS

VII.-How Lincoln appeared in the WHITE HOUSE

VIII. THE EMANCIPATION of the SLAVES ..

IX.-A MASTER IN DIPLOMACY

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X.-LINCOLN'S PHILOSOPHY, MOrals, and ReligION .... 370

List of Illustrations

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.Frontispiece

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

From an original, unretouched negative made in 1864, when
be commissioned Ulysses S. Grant Lieutenant-General and
commander of all the armies of the republic.

THE BIRTHPLACE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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This cabin was long ago torn down, but the logs were saved,
and in August, 1895, it was rebuilt on the original site.

ROCK SPRING FARM, KENTUCKY, WHERE ABRAHAM LINCOLN
WAS BORN

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From a photograph taken in September, 1895.

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ROCK SPRING ON THE FARM WHERE LINCOLN WAS BORN..... 26

From a photograph taken in September, 1895. The spring
is in a hollow at the foot of the gentle slope on which the
house stands.

FAC-SIMILE OF AN INVITATION TO A SPRINGFIELD COTILLION

By special permission, from the collection of C. F. Gunther,
Esq., Chicago.

MARY TODD LINCOLN, WIFE of Abraham LINCOLN...

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44

From a photograph by Brady in the War Department Col-
lection.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN EARLY IN 1861, WHEN HE FIRST BEGAN TO
WEAR A BEARD........

60

From a photograph in the collection of H. W. Fay, Esq.,
De Kalb, Illinois. By special permission.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN THE SUMMER OF 1860...........

75

From a negative taken for M. C. Tuttle, of St. Paul, Minne-
sota, for local use in the presidential campaign.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN 1858....

From a photograph owned by Hon. William J. Franklin,
Macomb, Illinois, taken in 1866 from an ambrotype made in
1858 at Macomb. By special permission.

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100

ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN 1861

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Copied from the original in the possession of Frank A.
Brown, Esq., Minneapolis, Minnesota.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S HOUSE at SpringFIELD, ILLINOIS.......
The tree in front of the house was planted by Lincoln.

156

ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN 1861.....

169

From a photograph by Klauber, of Louisville, Kentucky,
taken especially for Mrs. Lucy G. Speed, in acknowledg-
ment of an Oxford Bible received from her twenty years
before. Reproduced by special permission of James B.
Speed, Esq., of Louisville, Kentucky.

GENERAL GEORGE B. MCCLELLan at the Head-QUARTERS OF GENERAL MORELL'S BRIGADE, MINOR'S HILL, VIRGINIA ... 206 From a contemporary photograph by M. B. Brady.

EDWIN M. Stanton, Secretary of War....

From a photograph by Brady.

GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT......

From an original, unretouched negative made in 1864, when
he was commissioned Lieutenant-General and commander
of all the armies of the republic.

GRAND REVIEW OF THE ARMY of the Potomac BY PRESIDENT
LINCOLN at Falmouth, Virginia, in April, 1863...................

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271

From a drawing by W. R. Leigh.

PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND HIS SON "TAD"

From a photograph by Brady, now in the War Department

Collection, Washington, D. C.

JOHN WILKES BOOTH.....

From a photograph by Brady.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN in 1864..........

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287

311

320

From a photograph in the War Department Collection.

FAC-SIMILE OF Letter by Abraham Lincoln TO HON. MICHAEL
HAHN, FIRST FREE STATE GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA

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338

By special permission of John M. Crampton, Esq., New
Haven, Connecticut.

SALMON P. CHASE, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY

From a photograph by Brady.

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