The life of Abraham Lincoln
eBook, English, 1885, ©1884
[Ill. ed.] View all formats and editions
Jansen, McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1885, ©1884
1 online resource (3 volumes (continuous paging) : illustrations, plates, portraits
1048331883
Ancestry and early life
Life at New Salem
The Illinois legislature
Miscellaneous speeches and marriage
Congress and the bar
The irrepressible conflict
The struggle for Kansas
The organization of the Republican Party
The Lincoln and Douglas debate
Lincoln becomes President
Lincoln reaches Washington
Lincoln in the White House
Extra session of Congress
Efforts for peaceful emancipation
The Emancipation Proclamation
Military operations in 1861-1862
Antietam and Chancellorsville
The tide turns
After Gettysburg
The Amendment proposed
Passage of the Amendment
Grant and Sherman
The second term
The approaching end
Victory and death
Includes index
"Of this edition, printed on larger and finer paper than the regular edition, only three hundred and seventy-five copies have been made. This copy is no. 244"--T.p. verso (v. 1)
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