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 -- Military operations in 1861-1862 -- Antietam and Chancellorsville -- The tide turns -- After Gettysburg -- The Amendment proposed -- Passage of the Amendment -- Grant and Sherman -- The second term -- The approaching end -- Victory and death Fish, D. Lincoln bibliography Monaghan, J. Lincoln bibliography Book, cloth; frontispiece (Lincoln copy) Bookplate: F.G. Weeks, Carson, Iowa (Lincoln copy) Holograph in pencil on flyleaf: F.G. Weeks, 2-13-1914 (Lincoln copy) 1 18