Grant—Rosecrans's March to Chattanooga—Battle of
Chickamauga—Grant at Chattanooga—Battle of Chattanooga—Burnside at
Knoxville—Burnside Repulses Longstreet

CHAPTER XXVIII


Grant Lieutenant-General—Interview with Lincoln—Grant Visits
Sherman—Plan of Campaigns—Lincoln to Grant—From the Wilderness to
Cold Harbor—The Move to City Point—Siege of Petersburg—Early Menaces
Washington—Lincoln under Fire—Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley

CHAPTER XXIX


Sherman's Meridian Expedition—Capture of Atlanta—Hood Supersedes
Johnston—Hood's Invasion of Tennessee—Franklin and
Nashville—Sherman's March to the Sea—Capture of Savannah—Sherman to
Lincoln—Lincoln to Sherman—Sherman's March through the Carolinas—The
Burning of Charleston and Columbia—Arrival at Goldsboro—Junction with
Schofield—Visit to Grant

CHAPTER XXX


Military Governors—Lincoln's Theory of Reconstruction—Congressional
Election in Louisiana—Letter to Military Governors—Letter to
Shepley—Amnesty Proclamation, December 8, 1863—Instructions to
Banks—Banks's Action in Louisiana—Louisiana Abolishes
Slavery—Arkansas Abolishes Slavery—Reconstruction in
Tennessee—Missouri Emancipation—Lincoln's Letter to Drake—Missouri
Abolishes Slavery—Emancipation in Maryland—Maryland Abolishes Slavery

CHAPTER XXXI


Shaping of the Presidential Campaign—Criticisms of Mr. Lincoln—Chase's
Presidential Ambitions—The Pomeroy Circular—Cleveland
Convention—Attempt to Nominate Grant—Meeting of Baltimore
Convention—Lincoln's Letter to Schurz—Platform of Republican
Convention—Lincoln Renominated—Refuses to Indicate Preference for
Vice-President—Johnson Nominated for Vice-President—Lincoln's Speech
to Committee of Notification—Reference to Mexico in his Letter of
Acceptance—The French in Mexico

CHAPTER XXXII


The Bogus Proclamation—The Wade-Davis Manifesto—Resignation of Mr.
Chase—Fessenden Succeeds Him—The Greeley Peace
Conference—Jaquess-Gilmore Mission—Letter of Raymond—Bad Outlook for
the Election—Mr. Lincoln on the Issues of the Campaign—President's
Secret Memorandum—Meeting of Democratic National Convention—McClellan
Nominated—His Letter of Acceptance—Lincoln Reëlected—His Speech on
Night of Election—The Electoral Vote—Annual Message of December 6,
1864—Resignation of McClellan from the Army

CHAPTER XXXIII


The Thirteenth Amendment—The President's Speech on its Adoption—The
Two Constitutional Amendments of Lincoln's Term—Lincoln on Peace and
Slavery in his Annual Message of December 6, 1864—Blair's Mexican
Project—The Hampton Roads Conference

CHAPTER XXXIV


Blair—Chase Chief Justice—Speed Succeeds Bates—McCulloch Succeeds
Fessenden—Resignation of Mr. Usher—Lincoln's Offer of
$400,000,000—The Second Inaugural—Lincoln's Literary Rank—His Last
Speech

CHAPTER XXXV


Depreciation of Confederate Currency—Rigor of
Conscription—Dissatisfaction with the Confederate Government—Lee
General-in-Chief —J.E. Johnston Reappointed to Oppose Sherman's
March—Value of Slave Property Gone in Richmond—Davis's Recommendation
of Emancipation—Benjamin's Last Despatch to Slidell—Condition of the
Army when Lee took Command—Lee Attempts Negotiations with
Grant—Lincoln's Directions—Lee and Davis Agree upon Line of
Retreat—Assault on Fort Stedman—Five Forks—Evacuation of
Petersburg—Surrender of Richmond—Pursuit of Lee—Surrender of
Lee—Burning of Richmond—Lincoln in Richmond

CHAPTER XXXVI


Lincoln's Interviews with Campbell—Withdraws Authority for Meeting of
Virginia Legislature—Conference of Davis and Johnston at
Greensboro—Johnston Asks for an Armistice— Meeting of Sherman and
Johnston—Their Agreement—Rejected at Washington—Surrender of
Johnston—Surrender of other Confederate Forces—End of the Rebel
Navy—Capture of Jefferson Davis—Surrender of E. Kirby Smith—Number of
Confederates Surrendered and Exchanged—Reduction of Federal Army to a
Peace Footing—Grand Review of the Army

CHAPTER XXXVII


The 14th of April—Celebration at Fort Sumter—Last Cabinet
Meeting—Lincoln's Attitude toward Threats of Assassination —Booth's
Plot—Ford's Theater—Fate of the Assassins—The Mourning Pageant

CHAPTER XXXVIII


Lincoln's Early Environment—Its Effect on his Character—His Attitude
toward Slavery and the Slaveholder—His Schooling in Disappointment—His
Seeming Failures—His Real Successes—The Final Trial—His
Achievements—His Place in History


INDEX

FOOTNOTES

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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Ancestry—Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks—Rock Spring Farm—Lincoln's Birth—Kentucky Schools—The Journey to Indiana—Pigeon Creek Settlement—Indiana Schools—Sally Bush Lincoln—Gentryville—Work and Books—Satires and Sermons—Flatboat Voyage to New Orleans—The Journey to Illinois

Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States, was born in a log cabin in the backwoods of Kentucky on the 12th day of February 1809. His father, Thomas Lincoln, was sixth in direct line of descent from Samuel Lincoln, who emigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1638. Following the prevailing drift of American settlement, these descendants had, during a century and a half, successively moved from Massachusetts to