Birthplace -- A schoolboy -- The old home sold -- A new home made -- After game -- Darker days -- Brighter hours -- A new mother and schools -- Borrowing and what came of it -- Working and winning -- Upward and onward -- On the flatboat -- Sundry incidents -- Off to Illinois -- Another trip to New Orleans -- In a pioneer store -- Still a clerk -- On the war path -- Unsought honors -- Laurels won -- Successful lawyer -- The rising statesman -- Going up higher -- Life in the White House -- His great interest in soldiers -- His work for the colored people -- Still in the White House -- Shot of the assassin -- Funeral ceremonies -- Oration / Hon. George Bancroft Monaghan, J. Lincoln bibliography Bound in cloth; frontispiece, illustrated front cover Copy 1: Indecipherable handwritten inscription in ink on flyleaf Copy 1: [1] p. of the publisher's advertisements on t.p. verso Copy 2: Stamped: Hyland's Book Store, 204-6 Fourth Street Copy 2, 3 lack ed. statement on t.p Copy 3: [10] p. of the publisher's advertisements at end 18