Includes index

Lincoln engraving

Slavery from 1788 to the compromise measures of 1850 -- Repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the struggle for Kansas -- Abraham Lincoln -- Lincoln and slavery from 1854 to 1858 -- Lincoln from 1857 to 1860: Lincoln and Douglas debates -- Presidential election of 1860: election of Lincoln, and culmination of the conspiracy to dissolve the Union -- Progress of the conspiracy: from the election of Lincoln to his arrival at Washington, February, 1861 -- Lincoln in the White House -- From the 4th of March to the 4th of July, 1861: from the inauguration of Lincoln to the meeting of Congress -- Extra session of Congress: civil policy and military events to the close of 1861 -- Second session Thirty-seventh Congress: Congress of 1862 -- Confiscation and emancipation -- The proclamation of emancipation -- Military operations of 1862 -- The President and General McClellan: the campaign against Richmond -- Military operations to the close of 1862: Pope, McClellan, Burnside --

Third session Thirty-seventh Congress -- The campaigns of 1863: Vicksburg, Gettysburg -- Military operations and events to close of 1863 -- First session of Thirty-eighth Congress, 1863-4 -- Reconstruction: Freedmen's Bureau, censure of Harris and Long -- Sanitary and Christian commissions: presidential conventions in 1864, emancipation in the border states -- Grant's campaign of 1864 -- Sherman's Atlanta campaign, and grand March to the Sea -- The second session of the Thirty-eighth Congress: constitutional amendment abolishing and prohibiting slavery throughout the republic -- The Thirty-eighth Congress: to its close -- Lincoln's second inauguration: the end of the war -- Cost of war: Lincoln's "Policy," his assassination, funeral, the grief of the people -- The constitutional history of the war

Monaghan, J. Lincoln bibliography

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