A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 609 pages of information about A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln.

A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 609 pages of information about A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln.
332;
  urges that parts of States be not exempted
  in final emancipation proclamation, 343;
  submits form of closing paragraph, 344;
  presidential aspirations of, 439-441;
  letter to Lincoln, 440, 441;
  resigns from cabinet, 457;
  effect of his resignation on the political situation, 464;
  looked upon by radicals as their representative in the cabinet, 487;
  hostility to Montgomery Blair, 488;
  made chief justice, 490, 491;
  note of thanks to Lincoln, 491;
  opinion of Lincoln, 491;
  administers oath of office to Lincoln at second inauguration, 496;
  administers oath of office to President Johnson, 545

=Chattanooga=, Tennessee, battle of, November 23-25, 1863, 389-392

=Chickamauga=, Tennessee, battle of, September 18-20, 1863, 386, 387

=Clary’s Grove=, Illinois, settlement of, 24

=Clay, Clement C., Jr.=, United States senator,
  Confederate agent in Canada, correspondence with Horace Greeley, 459

=Clay, Henry=, nominated for President, 28

=Clements, Andrew J.=, member of Congress, elected to Congress, 419

=Cleveland=, Ohio, funeral honors to Lincoln in, 547

=Cochrane, John=, member of Congress, brigadier-general United States
  Volunteers, nominated for Vice-President, 1864, 442

=Cold Harbor=, Virginia, battle of, June 1-12, 1864, 399

=Colfax, Schuyler=, member of Congress, Vice-President,
  letter to, from Lincoln, 132, 133

=Collamer, Jacob=, member of Congress, Postmaster-General,
  United States senator, vote for, in Chicago convention, 149

=Columbia=, South Carolina, capture and burning of, 415, 416

=Columbus=, Kentucky, evacuation of, 269

=Confederate States of America=, formed by seceding States, 178, 179;
  “corner-stone” theory, 179;
  government of, fires on Fort Sumter, 189;
  joined by North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas, 200;
  strength of, 204;
  war measures of, 207;
  capital removed to Richmond, 207;
  strength of, in the West, 263;
  outcry of, against emancipation proclamation and arming of
  negroes, 350, 351;
  efficiency of armies of, in 1863, 370;
  proclamation calling on people to resist Sherman’s march, 411, 412;
  nearly in state of collapse, 481;
  doomed from the hour of Lincoln’s reelection, 499;
  depreciation of its currency, 499, 500;
  conscription laws of, 500;
  Confederate Congress makes Lee general-in-chief, 500;
  number of soldiers in final struggle, 507;
  flight of, from Richmond, 515;
  collapse of the rebellion, 524-527;
  number of troops surrendered, 527

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