=Lee, Robert E.=, colonel United States army,
  Confederate general, captures John Brown, 134;
  enters service of Confederacy, 196, 197, 208;
  concentrates troops at Manassas Junction, 215;
  sends troops into West Virginia, 224;
  attacks McClellan near Richmond, 302;
  campaign into Maryland, 314;
  captures Harper’s Ferry, 315;
  battle of Antietam, 315;
  retreats across the Potomac, 316;
  battle of Chancellorsville, 369;
  resolves on invasion of the North, 370;
  crosses the Potomac, 371, 372;
  battle of Gettysburg, 372-374;
  retreats across the Potomac, 375, 377;
  strength and position of his army, 397;
  battle of the Wilderness, 398;
  Spottsylvania Court House, 398, 399;
  Cold Harbor, 399;
  defense of Petersburg, 400-402;
  sends Early up the Shenandoah valley, 403;
  despatch about rations for his army, 481;
  made general-in-chief, 500;
  assumes command of all the Confederate armies, 502;
  attempt to negotiate with Grant, 502, 503;
  conference with Davis, 504;
  attempt to break through Grant’s lines, 504-506;
  number of men under his command in final struggle, 507;
  takes command in person, 507;
  attacks Warren, 507;
  battle of Five Forks, 507-509;
  makes preparations to evacuate Petersburg and Richmond, 509;
  begins retreat, 510;
  surrender of Richmond, 510;
  reaches Amelia Court House, 510;
  starts toward Lynchburg, 511;
  reply to generals advising him to surrender, 512;
  correspondence with Grant, 512, 513;
  surrender of, 513-515;
  size of army surrendered by, 524

=Letcher, John=, member of Congress, governor of Virginia,
  orders seizure of government property, 194

=Lincoln, Abraham=, sixteenth President of the United States,
  born February 12, 1800, 3, 6;
  goes to A B C schools, 6;
  early schooling in Indiana, 10-13;
  home studies and youthful habits, 13-19;
  manages ferry-boat, 15;
  flatboat trip to New Orleans, 15, 16;
  employed in Gentryville store, 16;
  no hunter, 17;
  kills wild turkey, 17, 18;
  emigrates to Illinois, March 1, 1830, 20;
  leaves his father’s cabin, 21;
  engaged by Denton Offutt, 21;
  builds flatboat and takes it to New Orleans, 22, 23;
  incident at Rutledge’s Mill, 22;
  returns to New Salem, 23;
  election clerk, 23, 24;
  clerk in Offutt’s store, 24;
  wrestles with Jack Armstrong, 25;
  candidate for legislature, 1832, 29;
  address “To the Voters of Sangamon County,” 29, 30;
  volunteers for Black Hawk War, 32;
  elected captain of volunteer company, 32;
  mustered out and reenlists as private, 32, 33;
  finally mustered out, 33;
  returns to New Salem, 33;
  defeated for legislature, 33;
  enters into partnership with Berry, 35;
  sells out to the Trent brothers, 36;
  fails, but promises to pay his debts,