Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, 1847-1865

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WARD HILL LAMON

PREFACE.

PREFACE (2)

CONTENTS.

INDEX OF LETTERS.

MEMOIR OF WARD H. LAMON.

RECOLLECTIONS OF

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

CHAPTER I. EARLY ACQUAINTANCE.

CHAPTER II. JOURNEY FROM SPRINGFIELD TO WASHINGTON.

CHAPTER III. INAUGURATION.

CHAPTER IV. GLOOMY FOREBODINGS OF COMING CONFLICT.

CHAPTER V. HIS SIMPLICITY.

CHAPTER VI. HIS TENDERNESS.

CHAPTER VII. DREAMS AND PRESENTIMENTS.

CHAPTER VIII. THE HUMOROUS SIDE OF HIS CHARACTER.

CHAPTER IX. THE ANTIETAM EPISODE. LINCOLN'S LOVE OF SONG.

CHAPTER X. HIS LOVE OF CHILDREN.

CHAPTER XI. THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE GETTYSBURG SPEECH.

CHAPTER XII. HIS UNSWERVING FIDELITY TO PURPOSE.

CHAPTER XIII. HIS TRUE RELATIONS WITH McCLELLAN.

CHAPTER XIV. HIS MAGNANIMITY.

CHAPTER XV. CABINET COUNSELS.

CHAPTER XVI. CONFLICT BETWEEN CIVIL AND MILITARY AUTHORITY.

CHAPTER XVII. PLOTS AND ASSASSINATION.

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APPENDIX. LINCOLN IN A LAW CASE.

Title: Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865

Author: Ward Hill Lamon

Editor: Dorothy Lamon Teillard

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