Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States
by Frank Crosby
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About This Book
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its greatest constitutional, military, and moral crisis—the American Civil War—preserving the Union, abolishing slavery, strengthening the national government and modernizing the economy. Reared in a poor family on the western frontier, Lincoln was self-educated, and became a country lawyer, a Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator during the 1830s, and a one-term member of the United States ...
Chapters (465)
- LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, SIXTEENTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS
- LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
- CHAPTER I. BOYHOOD AND EARLY MANHOOD.
- CHAPTER II. IN CONGRESS AND ON THE STUMP.
- CHAPTER III. BEFORE THE NATION.
- CHAPTER IV. NOMINATED AND ELECTED PRESIDENT.
- CHAPTER V. TO WASHINGTON.
- CHAPTER VI. THE NEW ADMINISTRATION.
- CHAPTER VII. PREPARING FOR WAR.
- CHAPTER VIII. THE FIRST SESSION OF CONGRESS.
- CHAPTER IX. CLOSE OF 1861.
- CHAPTER X. THE CONGRESS OF 1861–2.
- CHAPTER XI. THE SLAVERY QUESTION.
- CHAPTER XII. THE PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN.
- CHAPTER XIII. FREEDOM TO MILLIONS.
- CHAPTER XIV. LAST SESSION OF THE THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
- CHAPTER XV. THE TIDE TURNED.
- CHAPTER XVI. LETTERS AND SPEECHES.
- CHAPTER XVII. THE THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
- CHAPTER XVIII. PROGRESS.
- CHAPTER XIX. RENOMINATED.
- CHAPTER XX. RECONSTRUCTION.
- CHAPTER XXI. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF 1864.
- CHAPTER XXII. RE-ELECTED.
- CHAPTER XXIII. TIGHTENING THE LINES.
- CHAPTER XXIV. IN RICHMOND.
- CHAPTER XXV. THE LAST ACT.
- CHAPTER XXVI. THE MAN.
- APPENDIX.
- SPEECH ON THE MEXICAN WAR.
- SPEECH ON INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.
- SPEECH ON THE PRESIDENCY AND GENERAL POLITICS.
- SPEECH IN REPLY TO MR. DOUGLAS, ON KANSAS, THE DRED SCOTT DECISION, AND THE UTAH QUESTION.
- SPEECH IN REPLY TO SENATOR DOUGLAS.
- OPENING PASSAGES OF HIS SPEECH AT FREEPORT.
- LETTER TO GENERAL McCLELLAN.
- LETTER TO GEN. SCHOFIELD RELATIVE TO THE REMOVAL OF GEN. CURTIS.
- THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN CALLED FOR.
- REV. DR. M’PHEETERS—THE PRESIDENT’S REPLY TO AN APPEAL FOR INTERFERENCE.
- AN ELECTION ORDERED IN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS.
- CALL FOR FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN.
- LETTER TO MRS. GURNEY.
- THE TENNESSEE TEST OATH.
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