relations with Grant, 516-527;
      appoints Grant Lieut-General, 516;
      summons him to Washington, 517;
      Grant receives commission, 517-519;
      first meeting with Grant, 520;
      L’s letter of satisfaction, 521;
      military orders issued by L., 522;
      interested in Grant’s career, 523;
      interest in Grant’s political aspirations, 523;
      Grant-Stanton episode, 526-527;
      Grant’s opinion of Lincoln, 527;
      campaign of 1864, 528-535;
      L’s attitude toward a second term, 528-532;
      New England’s attitude toward the administration, 529;
      relations with Chase, 532-534, 549-550;
      candidates of 1864, 532-533;
      L’s nomination, 1864, 534;
      acceptance speech, 535;
      Early’s raid, 532-537;
      call for more troops, 537;
      war policy criticized, 537;
      depression of L., 538-539;
      campaign of 1864, 539-540;
      McClellan a candidate, 539;
      L’s secret pledge to support successor, 540;
      attempt on life, 540-541;
      effect of burdens and anxiety during war, 542-546;
      election of 1864, victory, 546-549;
      Grant’s telegram, 548;
      Seward’s tribute, 548-549;
      Chase’s resignation, 549-550;
      other cabinet changes, 550-552;
      fourth annual message, 552;
      colored people at White House reception, 552-553;
      negotiates with Southern peace commissioners, 554-556;
      assumes responsibility for unpopular measures, 554-555;
      scheme for compensation emancipation, 556-557;
      second inauguration, 557-560;
      close of the war, 561-563;
      escapes office-seekers, 563;
      with Grant, Sherman, and Porter at City Point, 562-566;
      on the River Queen, 563-566;
      concern about Schofield, 565;
      on the Malvern 566-567;
      at Petersburg, 567-568;
      at Richmond, 568-573;
      news of Richmond’s fall, 568;
      visit to Richmond, 569;
      welcomed by the negroes, 571;
      Southerners’ reception, 572;
      joy over Lee’s surrender, 573;
      scene at Capitol, 574-575;
      L.’s speech to the multitude, 576;
      reconstruction views, 576-581;
      instructions to Grant on final conference with Lee, 577-578;
      feeling toward the South, 577-580;
      pardoning confederates, 579-580;
      the last day:  talk with Robert, 582;
      receives visitors, 583;
      last cabinet meeting, 583-584;
      significant dreams, 583-584;
      drive with Mrs. Lincoln, 584-585;
      last official acts, 585-587;
      reaches theatre, 587;
      the shot fired, 588;
      Booth’s escape, 588-589;
      Walt Whitman’s description, 589;
      Booth’s plan, 590;
      Rathbone’s account, 590;
      death-bed, 591;
      Welles’s account, 591-594;