The Life of Abraham Lincoln

Includes index Lincoln engraving Ancestry and early life -- Life at New Salem -- The Illinois legislature -- Miscellaneous speeches and marriage -- Congress and the bar -- The irrepressible conflict -- The struggle for Kansas -- The organization of the Republican Party -- The Lincoln and Douglas debate -- Lincoln becomes President -- Lincoln reaches Washington -- Lincoln in the White House -- Extra session of Congress -- Efforts for peaceful emancipation -- The Emancipation Proclamation -- Milit