my, 884

ABOLITIONISTS, melting into the new par-

ty, 150; trying to convert Mr. Lincoln,

155; not yet ready to follow him, 170
Anderson, Maj. R., in command of Fort

Sumter, 195
Anti-coercion meetings at the North, 223
Antietam Creek, battle of, 325; President's

doubt as to its being a victory, 334
Armstrong, Jack, of Clary's Grove, wrest-

ling match with Lincoln, 76
Armstrong, Hannah, appealing to Lincoln

to defend her son, 164; forebodings of

Lincoln's assassination, 198
Armstrong, William D., son of Jack and

Hannah, accused of murder and de-

fended by Lincoln, 163
Arlington House, Lee family mansion,

Rebel flag on, 235-238
Army of the Potomac, representative ar-
Army organization, complications of State

and National authority, 208; difficul-

ties, 271; formative processes, 284
Assassination, conspiracy and prepara-

tions for, 458; accomplished, 459; com-
ments of European powers and press,

464.
Ashmun, George, Chairman of Chicago

Nat. Rep. Convention, 184; appoint-

ment to meet President, etc., 459
BAKER, E. D., Lincoln's withdrawal in his

favor as a candidate for Congress, 128
Baltimore, Secession feeling in, 201; attack

upon Massachusetts 6th Reg., 230; city
captured by troops under Gen. B. F.
Butler, 232-536; National Convention of

Rep. party held there, 428
Bates, Edward, appointed Attorney-Gen-

eral, 215; resigned, 442
Beauregard, Gen. P.G. T., in command of

Rebel troops at Manassas Junction, 254
Berry, business partner of Lincoln in New

Salem, 94 96
Big Bethel, fight, 254
Blackhawk War, outbreak of, 81; Still-

man's defeat, 85; Independent Spy

Company, 88
Blackstone's Commentaries, borrowed of

John T. Stuart by Lincoln, 101
Blair, Montgomery, Postmaster-General,

215; opposed to Proclamation of Eman-

cipation, 333; resigned, 412
Blockade of Southern seaports, first pro-

clamation of, 250; effectiveness of, 262
Bloomington, D., state Convention of

Anti- Nebraska men held there, 155;

speech of Mr. Lincoln, 157
Booth, John Wilkes, actor and assassin,

459; death of, 460
Border States, saved to the Union, 197, 221,

350; furnishing volunteers for the ar-
my, 355; disturbed by Emancipation,
805; reconstruction of, 374

Brandy Station, battle of, 388
Breckinridge, great speech in murder-

case and repulse of young Lincoln's

compliments, 58
Breckinridge, John C., Vice-President, 160;

nomination for President, 184
Bryant, William Cullen, presided at

Cooper Institute meeting and intro-

duced Mr. Lincoln, 179
Buchanan, James, nominated for Presi.

dent, 160; character of his administra-
tion, 190–196; accompanies Mr. Lincoln

at his inauguration, 208
Bull Run, battle of, 255; effects of, 257;

false accounts of, 265
Burnside, Gen. Ambrose E., succeeded

McClellan in command, 326; successes
in North Carolina, 350; plan of cam-
paign on Potomac, 356; removal from
command, 358; commanded in Ohio,

378; further services, 414
Bushnell C. S., and the construction of the

Monitor, 298
Butler, Gen. B. F., commanding Massachu-

setts troops in Maryland, 233; Sus-
pends writ of Habeas Corpus, 236; cap-
ture of Baltimore, 236; declares fugi-

tives from slavery contraband, 277
Butler, William, friend with whom Lincoln

boarded, 118
CABINET, the, formation of, 189, 214; Opin-

ions with reference to Fort Sumter, 222
Calhoun, surveyor of Sangamon County, 95
Call for troops, first, 224; from four States

to repel second invasion, 389
Cameron, Simon, Secretary of War, 214;

resignation of, 316
Campbell, J. A., at Peace Conference in

Hampton Roads, 446; action with ref-

erence to Lee's surrender, 455
Carpenter, Frank B., painting picture of

first reading of Emancipation Procla-
mation, 332; conversations with Mr.

Lincoln, 333
Cartwright, Rev. Peter, candidate for Con-

gress against Lincoln and defeated, 183
Central Illinois Gazette, newspaper nomi-

nation of Lincoln for the Presidency,

174
Civil war, threats of, in case of Lincoln's

election, 160; termination of, 455
Champaign County, N., Lincoln retires

from a murder-case in, 140; received
there the news of his votes for Vice-
President, 160; nominated first for

President in, 174
Chancellorsville, battle of, etc., 386, 887
Chantilly, battle of, 231
Charleston, S. C., forts in and about har-

bor of, 195; capture of, by Union troops,

446
Chase, Salmon P., candidacy at Chicago,

183; Secretary of the Treasury, 215,
270; resigned, 442; appointed Chief

Justice of the Supreme Court, 443
Chicago, Republican National Convention

in 1860, 183
Clary's Grove Boys, character of, 76; elect

Lincoln their captain, 82
Clay, Henry, political idol of Lincoln, 128;

defeat of, for Presidency, 130; put
aside, 135, funeral oration by Lincoln,

145
Colonization, chimerical ideas entertained,

etc., 145; recommended in Emancipa-

tion Proclamation, 365
Commissioners, Confederate, not recog-

nized, 217
Committee on the Conduct of the War, 290
Compensation for slaves of loyal owners,

365
Confederacy, Southern, formation of, 185;

first army of, 225
Congress of United States, call for extra

session, 227; first war-legislation, 259,

267
Constitutional Amendment prohibiting

slavery, 445
Cooper Institute speech, 178
Copperheads, name given to Northern

Rebels, 214; useful allies of the South,

287, 389
Crawford, Josiah, owner of “Weems' Life

of Washington" spoiled by Lincoln, 45
Crisis, financial, of 1857, 119
Crittenden Compromise, failure of, 213
Cruelty to Animals, lecture and essay by

young Lincoln, 43.
DAVIS, DAVID, appointed to the Supreme

Court, etc., 443
Davis, Jefferson, President of the Confede-

racy, 213; predicts a bloody war, 222;

urges Virgínia to hostilities, 232
Dayton, William L., candidate of People's

party for Vice-President, 159
Debating Club, of Gentryville, Ind., 56; of

New Salem, Ill., 91
Decatur, 1H., town of, near first settlement

Gettysburg, battle of, 392, 394; estimate of

forces engaged, ' 395; dedication of

cemetery and speeches, 414
Gist, Governor of South Carolina in 1860,

issued circula letter to other Southern

States, 192
Gosport Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va., burning

of, etc., 218, 235
Graham, Minter, schoolmaster of New Sa-

lem, Ill., advises Lincoln to study gram-
mar, 78; instructs him in surveying,

95
Grant, Gen. Ulysses S., President's letter

to bim, 415; appointed to Military De-
partment of the West, 421; Lieutenant-
General in command of all armies,
423; Lincoln's opinion of him, 424; cor-
respondence with Lincoln on army

plans, 443; in front of Richmond, 453
Greeley, Horace, and the Niagara Falls

Commissioners, 435
Greene, Bowlin, helps buy Lincoln's effects

at sheriff's sale, 97; took care of him

during melancholia, etc., 109
Grigsby, Aaron, brother-in-law of Lincoln,

49
Grigsby, Nat, Lincoln interrupts a speech

to step down and speak to him, 129
HABEAS CORPUS, Writ of, suspended in

certain parts of Maryland, 236; Gen-
eral Proclamation, 339, 371; test-case in

Ohio, 378
Hall, Levi, married Lincoln's step-sister

and emigrated to Illinois with him, 65
Halleck, Gen. H. W., appointed General-

in-Chief, 3187 views of Pope's cam-

paign, 3:22
Hamlin, Hannibal, Vice-President, 183
Hancock, Gen. W. s., remark in council of

war at Gettysburg, 394
Hanks, Dennis, cousin and playfellow of

Lincoln in Kentucky, 19; in Indiana,
27; goes to Illinois, 65; works with

him, 67
Hanks, John, settled in Illinois and drew

the Lincoins to follow, 65; caused Lin-
coln's first speech in Hlinois, 68; com-
panion in flat-boat voyage, etc., 69;
gave him the name and fame of “Rail-

splitter," 181
Hardin, General, Lincoln withdrew in his

favor, as candidate for Congress, in

1846, 182
Harper's Ferry, arsenal burned, 285; sur-

render of troops in 1862, 825
Harris, Miss C., with the President when

he was murdered, 459
Harrison, George W., returned from Black-

hawk War in company with Lincoln,

88
Harrison, political campaign, 120
Hay, Colonel John, Private Secretary to

the President, 216; sent to meet Con-

federate envoys at Niagara, 436
Hazel, Caleb, second schoolmaster of Lin-

coln in Kentucky, 18
Herndon, I. and R.,

brothers, business men
of New Salem, I., intimate friends of

Lincoln, 94
Herndon, William H., law-partner of Lin-

coln, 131; corresponded wit him in

Congress, 134; report of Lincoln's de-
spair of political affairs, 142; prevented
by Lincoln from going to Kansas, 154;
signed Lincoln's name to the call for
the Bloomington Convention, 156;
makes half of his next audience, 158;
shrinking consequences a little, 169; the

old law-sign not to be taken down, 198
Hill, Samuel, Lincoln's infidel manuscript

read and burned in store of, 103
Holt, Joseph, Secretary of War at the

close of the Buchanan Administration,

196
Hooker, Gen. Joseph, succeeded Burnside

in command of Army of the Potomac,
359, 385; resigned, 392; further services,

414
House Divided against Itself, preparation

and delivery of speech, 109, 172. (See

Appendix.)
Hunter, R. M. T., at Peace Conference in

Hampton Roads, 446
ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD, disputing law-

fee demanded by Lincoln, 102
Illinois, State of, Lincoln's emigration from

Indiana to, 65; politics and financial

excitement in, 92
Inauguration, Presidential, features of, in

1861, 208; in 1865, 418
Indiana, Territory and State, 19; Lincoln's.

first home there, 25
Internal Improvements, a hobby of Lin-

coln's early political life, 92, 106, 118
Invalid Corps, on duty in New York dur-

ing Draft Riots, 398
JACKSON, Gen. ANDREW,

Lincoln a “Jack-
son man," 92
Jayne, William, nominating Lincoln for

the Legislature without authority, 150
Jewett, W. C., of Colorado, with the Rebel

commissioners, 435
Joint Debates of 1856, 160; of 1858, 173
Johnson, Andrew, nominated for Vice-

President, 430; Military Governor of
Tennessee, 438; escapes assassination,

etc., 458
Johnson, Herschel V., Douglas-Democratic

candidate for Vice-President, 184
Johnston family, at time of marriage of

Mrs. Johnston with Thomas Lincoln, 32
Johnston, John, step-brother of Lincoln,

32; partner in second flat-boat voyage,
69, 71; letter to him in last illness of

Thomas Lincoln, 114
Jones, keeper of country store in Gentry-

ville, hired Lincoln ås salesman, 56
Journey to Washington in 1861, speeches

and incidents, 201, 204
KANSAS-NEBRASKA Bill, reported to U. S.

Senate in 1854, 146
Kansas Territory and State, troubles in,

151; stumping tour in, by Lincoln, 177;
political troubles concerning military

management, 401, 406, 428
Kean, Laura, actress at Ford's Theater at

assassination of the President, 460
Kentucky, neutrality of, 258
Kirkpatrick, competitor of Lincoln for

captaincy in Illinois Volunteers, 82

LAMON, WARD H., associate counsel with

Lincoln, 140; duties at the White

House, 243
Lane, Senator James, of Kansas, speech in

defense of Lincoln, 429
Lane, Joseph, proslavery Democratic can-

didate for Vice-President in 1860, 184
Lee, Gen. Robert E., offered command of

Union forces, 236; takes command of
Virginia State troops, 240; surrender

of, 455
Letters of marque, Jefferson Davis issued

proclamation offering, 250
Lincoln, Abraham, birth and childhood,

13-24; brother, 21; schooling, 18, 35, 37,
42; bodily strength, 37, 55, 98; books,
40, 44, 46, 78; writing, 43; first stump-
speaking, 48, 68; early temperate hab-
its, 48; clerk in a country, store, 56;
first law-studies, 51, 56; sociability, 54;
first flat-boat voyage, 60; removal from
Indiana to Illinois, 65; second flat-boat
voyage, 69; inventor, 70; clerk of elec-
tion, 74; miller, 75; wrestler, 72, 76;
captain of volunteers in the Blackhawk
War, 82; private soldier, 88; candidate
for the State Legislature, 91; merchant,
91; law-student, 14; surveyor, 95; post-
master, 95; bankrupt, 96; first love, 99;
elected to the State Legislature, 101;
skeptic, 103; temporary insanity, 108,
122; correspondence with Mary Owens,
111; antislavery protest in Illinois
Legislature, 115; admitted to the bar,
118; betrothal to Mary Todd, 121; duel
with Shields, 124; marriage, 125; ad-
mitted to practice in U. S. Circuit
Court, 127; elected to Congress, 138;
death of his father, 144; first reply to
Douglas, 147; defeated candidate for
the United States Senate, 152, 169, 173;
Bloomington speech, 156; candidate for
Vice-President of the United States,
159; “House divided against itself"
speech, 170; editorial nomination for
President of the United States, 174;
Cooper Institute speech, 178; rail-split-
ter, 181; nomination for the Presidency
by the Republican National Conven-
tion, 183; elected President, 186; policy.
before inauguration, 190; farewell
speech to citizens of Springfield, 202;
inauguration, 209; selection of Cabinet,
214; military student, 245; read no let
ters, 282; procures the construction of
the Monitor 298; Proclamation of
Emancipation, 330, 332, 334; visiting
Army of Potomac, 840; loss of little
Willie, 345; letter to the armies on Sab-
bath-keeping, 347; watching armies in
the West, 351, 415; barassed to petu-
lance, 382; calumny and abuse of, 402,
425; "last, best, and shortest speech,
408; consciousness of wearing out, 408;
nominated for a second term, 429, 481;
elected, 441; inaugurated, with ad-
dress, etc., 448; last visit to the ar-
my, 452; entry of Richmond after