Abraham Lincoln

INDEX

Reading edition

Andersonville, responsibility for,

190

Andrew, John. A.,

105

Antietam, battle of,

115

Appomattox, the surrender at,

177 ff.

Atlanta, capture of,

151

Bahamas, trade of the, with the Confederacy,

167 ff.

Banks, General N.P.,

103

Bazaine, General, in command of French army in Mexico,

156

Belle Isle, the prison of,

189

Bentonville, battle of,

183

Bixby, Mrs., letter to, from Lincoln,

152

"Black Republicans," the,

250

Blair, Prank P., difficulties with,

161

Blount, William,

237

Border States, the, and emancipation,

114 ff.

Bragg, Gen. Braxton,

136 ff.

Brainerd, Cephas, on the Cooper Union address,

211

Brown, John, raid of,

254

Bryant on Lincoln,

202

Buckner, Gen. S.B.,

Bull Run, second battle of,

122

Burnside, Gen. Ambrose F.,

and the Army of the Potomac, 127;

and the defence of Knoxville, 137

Butler, Benjamin F.,

103

120

Cabinet, cabals in the,

160

Cedar Creek, the battle of,

150 ff.

Chancellorsville, battle of,

129

Charleston, evacuation of,

169

Chase, Salmon P.,

and the Presidential election of 1864, 154;

resignation of, 154;

appointed chief justice, 155;

efforts of, for the Presidency, 157;

difficulties with, in the Cabinet, 161

Chickamauga, battle of,

136

Clay, Cassius M.,

223

Congress and slavery in the Territories,

246 ff.

Constitution,

the 13th amendment to, 163 ff.;

defined by Lincoln, 236 ff.;

and property in slaves, 260 ff.

"Crocker, Master",

113

Curtin, Gov. A.G.,

105

Curtis, Gen. S.R.,

108

Danville, the prison of,

147

189 ff.

;

mortality in, 159

Davis, Jefferson, and Benj. F. Butler,

120

;

and the Peace Conference of Feb., 1865, 163;

capture of, ;

and the other leaders of the South, 189;

and the management of the Southern

prisons,

190 ff;

as a prisoner and martyr, 191

Douglas, Stephen A., and the debate with Lincoln, cited,

235

;

and the sedition act, 263;

and the Dred Scott decision, 246

Dred Scott case, the,

246

Early, Jubal A., raid of on Washington,

142 ff.

;

and the battle of Winchester, 149;

and the battle of Cedar Creek, 150

Elliott, Charles W.,

213

Emancipation Proclamation, the,

115 ff.

Enfield rifles, use of, by Confederates,

146

Farragut, Admiral D.G.,

111

Few, William,

237

Fisher, Fort, capture of,

167

Fitzsimmons, Thomas,

238

Floyd, General John B.,

Franklin, battle of,

151 ff.

Franklin, Benjamin,

245

Georgia, cession of territory by,

239

Gettysburg, campaign of,

132 ff.

Goldsborough, surrender of Johnston's army at,

183

Goodell, Dr. Wm.,

212

Grant, Gen. U.S., captures Fort Donelson,

;

and the Vicksburg campaign, 134;

and the Chattanooga campaign, 136;

commander of the armies, 137 ff.;

suggested for the Presidency, 157;

declines to consider terms of peace, 171;

at Appomattox, 177 ff.;

at Goldsborough, 184 ff.

Greeley, Horace,

105

Greene, Frank V., on Lincoln,

106

Halleck, Gen. H.W.,

103

Hallowell, Col. Norwood,

116

Hamilton, Alexander,

245

Hancock, Gen. W.S.,

127

Harper's Ferry,

124

;

John Brown's raid at, 254

Helper, H.R., the "Impending Crisis" of,

258

Hewitt, Abram S.,

99 ff.

Higginson, Col. T.W.,

116

Hood, Gen. John B.,

151 ff.

Hooker, Gen. Joseph,

107

127

130 ff.

137

Intervention of France and England threatened,

122

Jefferson, Thomas, on emancipation,

257

Johnston, Gen. Joseph E.,

138

151

169

183

ft.

King, Rufus,

241

Knoxville, siege of,

137

Lee, Gen. Robert E. and the Antietam campaign,

122

;

and the campaign of Gettysburg, 130 ff.;

and the defence of Virginia, 137 ff.;

proposes treaty of peace, 171;

defeated at Five Forks, 171;

at Appomattox, 171

Libby prison, Presidential election in,

158

;

mortality in, 159;

record of, 189 ff.

Lincoln, Abraham, and Hewitt, A.S.,

100 ff.

;

writes to "Master Crocker", 113;

as commander-in-chief, 103 ff.;

and the death penalty for soldiers, 119;

campaign methods of McClellan, 125 ff.;

letter of, appointing Hooker, 128;

to Grant on the fall of Vicksburg, 134;

address of, at Gettysburg, 134;

letter of, to Mrs. Bixby, 152;

re-election of, as President, 157;

and the exchange of prisoners, 158 ff.;

and the control of the administration, 160;

and the Peace Conference of Feb., 1865, 162 ff.;

second inaugural of, 169 ff.;

last public address of, 178;

death of, 181;

and the proposed capture of Jefferson Davis, 188;

death of, reported to the army at Goldsborough, 190;

comparison of, with Washington and Jackson, 195 ff.;

Cooper Union address of, 205 ff.;

writes to Nott, 225 ff.

Lincoln, Robert, on the Cooper Union address,

209

Longstreet, Gen. James,

133

137

Lookout Mountain, battle of,

137

Louisiana, purchase of,

240

Lowell on Lincoln,

202

Maximilian, Prince, and the invasion of Mexico,

156

McClellan, Gen. George B.

102 ff.

;

and the Antietam campaign, 122 ff.;

ordered to report to New Jersey, 126

Meade, Gen. Geo. G.,

127

131

Mifflin, Thomas,

237

Milliken's Bend, battle of,

118

Minnesota, troops from,

165

;

university of, 167

Missionary Ridge, battle of,

137

Mississippi, organisation of the Territory of,

240

Missouri, admission of,

241

Missouri Compromise, the,

Monocacy Creek, battle of,

143

Morgan, Gen. John,

177

Morris, Gouverneur,

245

Napoleon, Louis, and the invasion of Mexico,

156

Nashville, battle of,

151 ff.

Nation

, the London, on the character of Lincoln,

198 ff.

New Orleans, capture of,

111 ff.

Nineteenth Army Corps and Early's raid,

145

North Carolina, cession of territory by,

239

Northwestern Territory, the, of the U.S.,

237

Nott, Chas. C.,

introduction to the Cooper Union address, 215 ff.;

letter of, to Lincoln, 224 ff.

Noyes, Wm. Curtis,

212

Ordinance of 1787,

238 ff.

Pea Ridge, battle of,

108

Peace Conference of Feb., 1865,

162

Pickett, Gen. G.E.,

133

Pinckney, Charles,

241 ff.

Pope, Gen. John,

103

122

Port Hudson, surrender of,

112

Presidential election in Libby prison,

158

Prisoners, the exchange of,

158

Putnam, George Palmer, and the Cooper Union address,

212

Reagan, Postmaster-general, at Goldsborough,

184

Reconstruction, Lincoln's views on,

180 ff.

Republican party, the, and slavery in the Territories,

249 ff.

Republican Union, the Young Men's,

223

232

Reynolds, Gen. J.T.,

127

Rosecrans, Gen. Wm. S., and the Chattanooga campaign,

136

Rutledge, John,

245

Schechter, Rabbi, on the character of Lincoln,

200

Schofield, Gen. Geo. W.,

152

Schurz, Carl, on the character of Lincoln,

201

Seward, W.H.,

160

Sharp's breech-loaders introduced in 1864,

146

Shaw, Col. R.G.,

116

Shenandoah, campaign in the valley of the,

149

Sheridan, Gen. Philip,

in the Shenandoah, 149 ff.;

wins battle of Five Forks, 171

Sherman, Roger,

237

Sherman, Gen. Wm. T.,

at Missionary Ridge, 137;

captures Atlanta, 151;

and the Georgia planter, 164;

passes by Charleston, 169;

at Goldsborough, 183 ff.

Sigel, Gen. Franz,

108

Smith, Gen. Kirby, surrender of,

191

Soldiers authorised to vote in presidential election,

152

Southampton, insurrection at,

256

South Mountain, battle of the,

124

Stanton, Edwin, M.,

101 ff.

185

Stephens, Alexander H., and the Peace Conference of Feb., 1865,

162 ff.

Sumter, Fort, restoration of the flag on,

182

Taylor, Gen. Richard, surrender of,

191

Thomas. Gen. Geo. H.,

136

Vicksburg, surrender of,

112

134

Wallace, Gen. Lew,

143

Washington assailed by Early,

142 ff.

Washington, George, and the

Ordinance of 1787, 239;

Farewell Address of, 252;

the example of, 266

Weitzel, Gen. Godfrey,

119

Whittier on Lincoln,

201

Wilderness, battle of the,

140 ff.

Williamson, Hugh,

237

Wilmington, capture of,

167

Winchester, third battle of,

149

Winder, Gen., and the management of the Southern prisons,

190

Wisconsin, troops from,

165

Wisewell, Col. F.H.,

144 ff.