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.

=Hooker, Joseph=, brevet major-general United States army,
  succeeds Burnside in command of Army of the Potomac, 366;
  submits plan of campaign to Lincoln, 368;
  battle of Chancellorsville, 369, 370;
  criticism of, 370;
  foresees Lee’s northward campaign, 370;
  proposes quick march to capture Richmond, 371;
  follows Lee, 372;
  asks to be relieved, 372;
  ordered to reinforce Rosecrans, 388;
  reaches Chattanooga, 389;
  in battle of Chattanooga, 390-391

=Hume, John F.=, moves that Lincoln’s nomination be made unanimous, 447

=Humphreys, Andrew A.=, brevet major-general United States army,
  in recapture of Fort Stedman, 505, 506;
  ordered to assist Sheridan, 509

=Hunt, Randall=, tendered cabinet appointment, 164

=Hunter, David=, brevet major-general, United States army,
  asked to assist Fremont, 235, 236;
  ordered to relieve Fremont, 243;
  order of emancipation, 327;
  experiment with negro soldiers, 348;
  declared an outlaw by Confederate War Department, 350

=Hunter, R.M.T.=, United States senator, Confederate Secretary of State,
  appointed peace commissioner, 482;
  at Hampton Roads conference, 482-485

=Iles, Elijah=, captain Illinois Volunteers, commands company in
  Black Hawk War, 33

=Illinois=, State of, organized as Territory, 1809, 19;
  admitted as State, 1818, 19;
legislative schemes of internal improvement, 44, 45;
  capital removed to Springfield, 45;
  political struggles over slavery, 45, 46;
  Lincoln-Douglas senatorial campaign in, 118-125;
  ratifies Thirteenth Amendment, 474, 475

=Island No. 10=, Tennessee, fortifications at, 269, 270;
  surrender of, 274

=Jackson, Andrew=, seventh President of the United States,
  gives impetus to system of party caucuses and conventions, 52

=Jackson, Claiborne F.=, governor of Missouri,
  attempts to force Missouri secession, 202-204;
  flight to Springfield, Missouri, 234

=Jackson, Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall")=, Confederate lieutenant-general,
  Shenandoah valley campaign, 305, 306;
  mentioned, 328;
  killed at Chancellorsville, 369

=Jaquess, James F.=, D.D., colonel United States Volunteers,
  visits to the South, 461, 462;
  interview with Jefferson Davis, 462

=Jewett, William Cornell=, letter to Greeley, 458

=Johnson, Andrew=, seventeenth President of the United States,
  in thirty-seventh Congress, 217;
  telegram about East Tennessee, 259;
  retains seat in Senate, 419;
  appointed military governor of Tennessee, 420;
  begins work of reconstruction, 428;
  nominated for Vice-President, 448, 449;
  popular and electoral votes for, 470;
  disapproves Sherman’s agreement with Johnston, 523;
  proclamation of amnesty, 526;
  plot to murder, 535;
  rejoicing of radicals on his accession to the Presidency, 545;
  takes oath of office, 545

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