It seemed as if the whole civilized world were arrested in its daily concerns of life by this tragic calamity. From every quarter of the globe, from kings and queens, emperors, senates, and legislative assemblies, from private individuals, high and low, and from convocations of the plain people of many lands, came messages of sympathy, condolence, respect, and sincere sorrow. It was a tribute unprecedented and spontaneous to the ended life and completed services of Abraham Lincoln.
The author of this brief biography has imperfectly carried out his purpose if he has failed to show how the character of Lincoln was developed and shaped by his early training; how he was raised up and fitted, in the obscure seclusion of humble life, by the providence of God, for a special and peculiar service; how he became the type, flower, and representative of all that is worthily American; how in him the commonest of human traits were blended with an allembracing charity and the highest human wisdom; and how, with single-hearted devotion to the right, he lived unselfishly, void of selfish personal ambition, and, dying tragically, left a name to be remembered with love and honor as one of the best and greatest of mankind.
Altoona, conference of governors
at, 342
American party, 156
Anderson, Major Robert, in the
Black Hawk War, 58; in Fort
Sumter, 255; surrender of, 256
Andrew, John A., Governor of
Massachusetts, 261
Antietam, battle of, 307
Anti-Lecompton, 160
Appomattox, surrender at, 445
Arkansas, reply to call for troops,
261; Halleck in, 323
Arming the freedmen, 303
Armstrong, Jack, encounter with
Lincoln, 50; Lincoln defends
his son on trial for murder, 127
Army of the Potomac, McClellan
commander of, 319, 324; pro-
posed reorganization of, 334:
ordered to support Pope, 342;
Lincoln visits, 356; at Gettys-
burg, 371; Sabbath-breaking,
379; Grant's headquarters
with, 387; Meade in command
cf, 388; corps commanders of,
388; battles of the Wilderness,
388; at Appomattox, 445
Ashmun, George, chairman of
Republican Convention of 1860,
Assassination, threats against Lin-
coln before inauguration, 219
Atchison, David R., in the Kan-
sas troubles, 145
Autobiography, Lincoln's, 165-
167
Awakening on slavery question,
133
Baker, Col. Edward D., law part-
ner with Lincoln, 75; Lincoln
rescues, from mob, 87; elected
to Congress, 97; friendship
with Lincoln, 415
Baltimore, Sixth Massachusetts
Regiment fired on in, 264
Banks, Gen. Nathaniel P., Gov-
ernor of Massachusetts, 262;
under Pope, 341
Barn-burners, 108, 109
Bateman, Newton, Lincoln's in-
terview with, 208
Beauregard, Gen. P. G. T., in com-
mand at Charleston, 256; de-
mands surrender of Fort Sum-
ter, 256; at Bull Run, 279
Bell, John, and Edward Everett
nominated, 191
Berry, partner of Lincoln, 65
Big Bethel, Federal defeat at, 279
Bissell, William H., Representa-
tive in Congress from Illinois,
83
Black Hawk War, 56-60
Black, Jeremiah S., Attorney-
General in Buchanan's Cabinet,
Blair, Francis P., Sr., visits Rich-
mond, 404
Blair, Montgomery, house de-
stroyed by Rebels, 392; dis-
missed by Lincoln, 437
Blockade of Southern ports de-
clared, 268
Bonds, six per cent., ordered, 360
Boone, Daniel, Kentucky pioneer,
8
Boonville, Lincoln attends court
at, 33
Booth, John Wilkes, 452
Breckinridge, Robert J., Lincoln
meets, at Boonville, 34
Breckinridge, John C., nominated
for President, 191
Broderick, David C., his death in
California, 205.
Brown, John, in Kansas, 145
Cabinet, Lincoln's, 246
Call for troops, 259; call and draft
ordered, 400
Cameron, Simon, Secretary of
War, 432; proposes to form
negro regiments, 433 ap-
pointed Minister to Russia,
434; defended by Lincoln, 434
Camp, half-faced, 12
Cartwright, Peter, candidate for
Congress, 10I
Cass, Gen. Lewis, in Black Hawk
War, 60; Lincoln's sarcasm
concerning, 106; nominated
for President, 110; Secretary
of State, 212
Chancellorsville, battle of, 357
Charleston, Ill., Lincoln's speech
Charleston, S. C., Democratic
Convention in 1860, 190; har-
bor fortifications, 212
Chase, Salmon P., favored by
radical Republicans, 383; his
dissatisfaction, 435; resigns
Treasury portfolio, 435; ap-
pointed Chief-Justice, 436
Chicago Convention, 1860, 191;
Lincoln nominated by, 195;
Hamlin nominated by, 196
Davis, David, lawyer in Spring-
field, Ill., 83
Davis, Jefferson, elected Provi-
sional President of Confederacy,
215; his threats against the
North, 216; plea for State
sovereignty, 275, 285; pre-
sented at Niagara Falls -
ference, and visit from F. i
Blair, Sr., 403 et seq.
Debt, public, in 1783, 2
Decatur County, Ill., Lincoln
settles in, 44
Democratic Convention, of 1860,
190; of 1864, 395; Breckin-
ridge nominated by, 191; Mc-
Clellan nominated by, 395
Dennison, Governor of Ohio, 262
Dix, John A., succeeds Howell
Cobb as Secretary of Treasury,
Dixie, a national air, 235; cap-
tured, 389
Dixon, John, guide in Black | Free Soilers, organize, 109; Lin-
Donelson, Fort, capture of, 322
Dorsey, Hazel, Lincoln's school-
Douglas, Stephen A., a lawyer in
Springfield, Ill., 83; denounced
for pro-slavery sentiments, 134;
speech in Springfield, Ill., 137;
with Lincoln in Peoria, 140;
opens the joint debate with
Lincoln, 163; his early history,
163; elected Senator, 177;
nominated for the presidency,
191; on the stump in 1860, 199;
at Lincoln's inauguration, 236,
244; death of, 274
Draft, ordered, 359; riots in New
York, 374
Early, Jubal A., Rebel general,
threatens Washington, 391
Electoral vote, 1856, 159; 1860,
200; 1864, 401
Elkin, Parson, border preacher,
8; funeral sermon at Mrs. Lin-
coln's burial, 22
Ellsworth, Elmer, death of, 272
Emancipation, proclamations of
Frémont and Hunter, 295, 297;
Lincoln's message concerning
Lincoln considers
same, 298;
his proclamation, 307; it is
issued, 308; full text of, 311-
317
Ewell, Richard S., Rebel general,
invades Pennsylvania, 367
coln leader of, 151
Frémont, John C., nominated for
President, 1856, 155; anti-
slavery views, 293; emancipa-
tion proclamation, 294; popu-
larity, 295; nominated for
President, 1864, 396
Garfield, James A., defeats Rebel
general, H. Marshall, 322; re-
port of Lincoln's capture of
Norfolk, 336
Gettysburg, battle of, 366; dedi-
cation of cemetery at, 377
Grant, Gen. Ulysses S., his rising,
321; "unconditional surren-
der," 322;
capture of Forts
Henry and Donelson, 322; at
Lieutenant-
Vicksburg, 365;
General, 384; at the Rapidan,
387; "fight it out on this line,'
388; suggested for the presi-
dency, 393; Lee seeks inter-
view with, 441;
conference
with Lincoln and Sherman,
442; envelops Lee's army, 444
Greeley, Horace, Lincoln's letter
to, 305; favors a foreign arbi-
tration, 354; opposes Lincoln,
at Niagara Conference,
Greene, Bolin, death of, 68
Hale, John P., comments on Trent
affair, 290, 291
Half-faced camp, 12
Halleck, Henry W., at Corinth,
Miss., 323; called to Washing-
ton, 341; his warning to Meade,
370
Hamlin, Hannibal, nominated
Vice-President, 196
Hampton Roads Conference, 405
Hanks, Dennis, 20
Hanks, Nancy, 5
Hanks, Thomas, 43; helping Lin-
coln, 44; brings rails into con-
vention, 183.
Hardin, John J., elected to Con-
gress, 98
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