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.
  depressing influence on political situation of his heavy fighting, 463;
  admits peace commissioners to his headquarters, 483;
  despatch to Stanton, 484;
  pushing forward, 502;
  telegraphs Lee’s letter to Washington, 503;
  reply to Lee, 504;
  orders to General Parke, 505;
  issues orders for the final movement of the war, 506;
  number of men under his command in final struggle, 507;
  his plan, 507;
  battle of Five Forks, 507-509;
  orders Sheridan to get on Lee’s line of retreat, 509, 510;
  sends Humphreys to Sheridan’s assistance, 509;
  telegram to Lincoln, 509;
  pursuit of Lee, 510-513;
  sends Sheridan’s despatch to Lincoln, 511;
  correspondence with Lee, 512, 513;
  receives Lee’s surrender, 513-515;
  forbids salute in honor of Lee’s surrender, 515;
  visit to Lee, 515;
  goes to Washington, 515;
  learns terms of agreement between Sherman and Johnson, 523;
  ordered to Sherman’s headquarters, 523;
  gives Sherman opportunity to modify his report, 523, 524;
  at Lincoln’s last cabinet meeting, 531;
  invited by Mrs. Lincoln to Ford’s Theater, 536

=Grant, Mrs. U.S.=, invited by Mrs. Lincoln to Ford’s Theater, 536

=Greeley, Horace=, hears Lincoln’s Cooper Institute speech, 138;
  “open letter” to Lincoln, 335;
  Niagara Falls conference, 458-461;
  effect of his mission on political situation, 464

=Halleck, Henry Wager=, major-general and general-in-chief
  United States army, succeeds Fremont, 260;
  reluctance to cooeperate with Buell, 263, 264;
  answers to Lincoln, 263, 264;
  instructions to Grant, 264;
  orders Grant to take Fort Henry, 266;
  sends reinforcements to Grant, 267;
  asks for command in the West, 269;
  plans expedition under Pope, 270;
  message to Buell, 270;
  telegrams to McClellan, 270;
  appeal to McClellan, 271;
  commands Department of the Mississippi, 271;
  orders Pope to join him, 274;
  march on Corinth, 275;
  capture of Corinth, 275;
  sends Buell to East Tennessee, 275;
  ordered to reinforce McClellan, 307;
  general-in-chief, 309;
  visit to McClellan, 309;
  orders Army of Potomac back to Acquia Creek, 309;
  letter to McClellan, 309, 310;
  orders McClellan to support Pope, 311;
  telegram to McClellan, 317;
  mentioned, 328, 329;
  asks to be relieved, 365;
  quarrel with Hooker, 372;
  urges Meade to active pursuit of Lee, 375;
  plans for Western campaign, 379;
  urges Buell to move into East Tennessee, 380;
  orders Rosecrans to advance, 385, 386;
  at council to consider news of Chattanooga, 388;
  President’s chief of staff, 394;
  conduct during Early’s raid, 403;
  note to War Department about Blair, 488;
  orders to Meade, 523

=Hamlin, Hannibal=, United States senator, Vice-President,
  nominated for Vice-President, 151;
  Cameron moves his renomination, 447;
  candidate for vice-presidential nomination in 1864, 448, 449

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