INDEX.
Reading edition
Abolitionism, 49, 66, 122, 126, 168.
Alabama, 145, 196.
Anti-slavery protest, 48, 50, 51;
resolutions, 59.
Baldwin, John, the smith, 27.
Barbarities, 186.
Black regiment, charge of the, 161.
Black’s (Judge) decision, 93.
Blockade declared, 108.
Booth, his plans, 221;
antecedents, 223;
death, 229.
Border ruffians and outrages, 68, 69, 71.
Buchanan, President, 92.
Bull Run, 113, 114.
Burnside, General, 142.
Cabinet, treason in the, 92.
Chancellorsville, battle of, 148.
Chattanooga, battle of, 164.
Clay, Henry, 57.
Compromises of 1826 and 1850, 66.
Confederate organisation in Europe, 117;
agents in Canada, 197;
proposals, 205.
Conspiracies, suspected, 88.
Copperheads, 96, 179;
book of, 237.
Colonisation of slaves proposed, 123.
Cost of the war, 219.
Davis, Jefferson, President of Confederacy, 94, 109;
escape of, 217.
“Dred Scott” decision, 73.
Douglas, Stephen, 47, 67, 69, 70, 74, 77, 84, 110.
Ellsworth and Winthrop, death of, 112.
Enlistment of coloured troops, 133.
Exhaustive effects of Northern incursions, 185.
Farragut, Admiral, 194.
Fox River anecdote, 95.
Fremont, 73, 169.
Gettysburg, battle of, 150.
Gloom of 1864, 179.
Grant, “Unconditional Surrender,” 137;
daring march, 157;
succession of victories, 158;
last battle, 212;
chase of Lee, 215.
Greeley, Horace, 79.
Hanks, Nancy, 9, 12, 15.
Hood, General, 188.
Hooker, General, 187.
Hicks, Governor, and Maryland, 107, 108.
Jackson, death of General Stonewall, 149.
Johnston, Mrs., Lincoln’s second mother, 18-20.
Jones of Gentryville, 26.
Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 67.
Kidnapping negroes (note), 67.
Lecompton Constitution, 74.
Lincoln, Mordecai and Abraham, 10.
Lincoln, Thomas, his character, 12;
his marriage, 15.
Lincoln, Abraham, his family, 9, 10;
birth and birth-place, 9;
grandfather killed by Indians, 11;
schools, 15;
migrations, 16, 30;
hereditary traits, 13;
poverty and 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 appearance, 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 merchant, and studies law, 42;
surveying studies, 43;
legal experiences, 61, 62, 63;
personal popularity, 57;
elected to legislature, 44, 45, 70;
removal to Springfield, and practice of law, 53;
generosity, 57;
enters Congress—first speech, 58;
Presidential candidate, 54;
declines nomination to the Senate, 70;
“house-divided-against-itself” speech, 75;
nomination for Presidency, 79, 80, 81, 82;
lectures in New York and England, 79, 80, 81;
elected President, 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;
interment, 232;
general summary of character, 233-244;
wit and humour, 240, 241, 242.
Long Nine, the, 46, 47.
Mason and Sliddell affair, 131.
M‘Clellan, General, 115;
apathy of, 140.
Merrimac, the, 141.
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.
Religion and irreligion, 55, 56.
Republican party, origin of, 72.
Richmond, fall of, 213.
Riot in New York, 165.
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.
War, organisation of, 113.
Wilderness, battle of the, 192.
Wilmot’s proviso, 66.