CONTENTS.

CONTENTS.

  I. The Wild West
  II. The Lincoln Family
  III. Early Years
  IV. In Indiana
  V. Second Journey to New Orleans
  VI. Desultory Employments
  VII. Entering Politics
  VIII. Entering the Law
  IX. On the Circuit
  X. Social Life and Marriage
  XI. The Encroachments of Slavery
  XII. The Awakening of the Lion
  XIII. Two Things that Lincoln Missed
  XIV. Birth of the Republican Party
  XV. The Battle of the Giants
  XVI. Growing Audacity of the Slave Power
  XVII. The Backwoodsman at the Center of Eastern Culture
  XVIII. The Nomination of 1860
  XIX. The Election
  XX. Four Long Months
  XXI. Journey to Washington
  XXII. The Inauguration
  XXIII. Lincoln his Own President
  XXIV. Fort Sumter
  XXV. The Outburst of Patriotism
  XXVI. The War Here to Stay
  XXVII. The Darkest Hour of the War
  XXVIII. Lincoln and Fremont
  XXIX. Lincoln and McClellan
  XXX. Lincoln and Greeley
  XXXI. Emancipation
  XXXII. Discouragements
  XXXIII. New Hopes
  XXXIV. Lincoln and Grant
  XXXV. Literary Characteristics
  XXXVI. Second Election
  XXXVII. Close of the War
  XXXVIII. Assassination
  XXXIX. A Nation's Sorrow
  XL. The Measure of a Man
  XLI. Testimonies