Abraham Lincoln
A History
In Ten Volumes

Edited by Nicolay and John Hay, copyright 1886, 1890 & 1914
5,200+ pages, Illustrated, Indexed, Searchable
 

 
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The life of America's greatest president.
This collection includes all ten volumes.
Includes Lincoln's lineage, memorable speeches, Lincoln-Douglas debates, Emancipation proclamation and more.

Abraham Lincoln  (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States (1861–1865). 
Lincoln led the nation through its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis in the American Civil War. He preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the U.S. economy.
Lincoln was born in poverty in a log cabin and was raised on the frontier primarily in Indiana. 
He was self-educated and became a lawyer, Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator, and U.S. Congressman from Illinois. 
In 1849 he returned to his law practice but became vexed by the opening of additional lands to slavery as a result of the Kansas–Nebraska Act. 
He reentered politics in 1854, becoming a leader in the new Republican Party, and he reached a national audience in the 1858 debates against Stephen Douglas.
Lincoln ran for President in 1860, sweeping the North in victory. Pro-slavery elements in the South equated his success with the North's rejection of their right to practice slavery, 
and southern states began seceding from the union. 
To secure its independence, the new Confederate States of America fired on Fort Sumter, a U.S. fort in the South, and Lincoln called up forces to suppress the rebellion and restore the Union.

Printed from original plates. Copyright renewed 1914 by Helen G. Nicolay
 
 Includes bibliographical notes
 
 v. 1. Lineage -- Indiana -- Illinois in 1830 -- New Salem -- Lincoln in the Black Hawk War -- Surveyor and representative -- Legislative experience -- The Lincoln-Stone experience -- Collapse of "The system" -- Early law practice -- Marriage -- The Shields duel -- The campaign of 1844 -- Lincoln's campaign for Congress -- The Thirtieth Congress -- A fortunate escape -- The Circuit lawyer -- The balance of power -- Repeal of the Missouri Compromise -- The drift of politics -- Lincoln and Trumbull -- The Border Ruffians -- The bogus laws -- The Topeka Constitution -- Civil War in Kansas --
 
 v. 2. Jefferson Davis on rebellion -- The Conventions of 1856 -- Congressional Ruffianism -- The Dred Scott decision -- Douglas and Lincoln on Dred Scott -- The Lecompton Constitution -- The revolt of Douglas -- The Lincoln-Douglas debates -- The Freeport Doctrine -- Lincoln's Ohio speeches -- Harper's Ferry -- Lincoln's Cooper Institute speech -- The Charleston Convention -- The Baltimore nominations -- The Chicago Convention -- Lincoln elected -- Beginnings of rebellion -- The Cabinet cabal -- From the ballot to the bullet -- Major Anderson -- The Charleston Forts -- The President's message -- The Charleston conspirators -- Mr. Buchanan's truce -- The retirement of Cass -- The Senate committee of thirteen -- The House committee of thirty-three -- The conspiracy proclaimed -- The forty muskets --
 
 v. 3. South Carolina secession -- Personal liberty bills -- The surrender programme -- Fort Sumter -- A blundering commission -- The Cabinet régime -- The "Star of the West" -- Anderson's truce -- The military situation at Charleston -- The national defense -- The Sumter and Pickens truce -- The cotton "republics" -- The Montgomery Confederacy -- Failure of compromise -- The constitutional amendment -- The president-elect -- Stephens's speech -- Questions and answers -- Springfield to Washington -- Lincoln's secret night journey -- Lincoln's inauguration -- Lincoln?s Cabinet -- The question of Sumter -- The rebel game -- Virginia -- Premier or president --
 
 v. 4. Fort Pickens reinforced -- The Sumter expedition -- The fall of Sumter -- The call to arms -- The national uprising -- Baltimore -- Washington in danger -- Rebellious Maryland -- Texas -- The Ohio Line -- Missouri -- Kentucky -- The Confederate Military League -- Civil War -- European neutrality -- McClellan and Grant -- Scott's Anaconda -- The advance -- West Virginia -- Bull Run -- Congress -- The contraband -- Frémont -- Military emancipation -- The Army of the Potomac --
 
 v. 5. Hatters and Port Royal -- The "Trent" affair -- The Tennessee Line -- East Tennessee -- Halleck -- Lincoln directs Cooperation -- Grant and Thomas in Kentucky -- Cameron and Stanton -- Plans of campaign -- Manassas evacuated -- Fort Donelson -- Compensated abolishment -- "Monitor" and "Merrimac" -- Roanoke Island -- Farragut's victory -- New Orleans -- Pea Ridge and Island No. 10 -- The Shiloh Campaign -- Halleck's Corinth Campaign -- Yorktown -- From Williamsburg to Fair Oaks -- Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign -- The Seven Days' Battles --Harrison's landing --
 
 v. 6. Pope's Virginia Campaign -- Mexico -- Diplomacy of 1862 -- Meditation declined -- Signs of the times -- Emancipation proposed and postponed -- Antietam -- Emancipation announced -- The removal of McClellan -- Fredericksburg -- Financial measures -- Seward and Chase -- Perryville and Murfreesboro -- West Virginia admitted -- Lincoln and the churches -- Military governors -- Colonization -- Missouri guerrillas and politics -- The Edict of freedom -- Negro soldiers -- Retaliation --
 
 v. 7. The enrollment and the draft -- The Lincoln-Seymour correspondence -- Du Pont before Charleston -- Chancellorsville -- Preludes to the Vicksburg Campaigns -- The Campaign of the Bayous -- Grant's May battles in Mississippi -- The invasion of Pennsylvania -- Gettysburg -- Vicksburg -- Port Hudson -- Vallandigham -- The defeat of the Peace Party at the polls -- Maximillian -- Fort Wagner -- Prisoners of war --
 
 v. 8. Conspiracies in the North -- Habeas Corpus -- The march to Chattanooga -- Chickamauga -- Chattanooga -- Burnside in Tennessee -- Lincoln's Gettysburg Address -- Missouri radicals and conservatives -- The line of the Rapidan -- Foreign relations in 1863 -- Olustee and the Red River -- The Pomeroy Circular -- Grant General-in-Chief -- The wilderness -- Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor -- Arkansas free -- Louisiana free -- Tennessee free -- Maryland free -- Missouri free --
 
 v. 9. Sherman's Campaign to the Chattahoochee -- The Cleveland Convention -- Lincoln renominated -- The resignation of Mr. Chase -- The Wade-Davis Manifesto -- The last days of the rebel navy -- Early's Campaign against Washington -- Horace Greeley's peace mission -- The Jaquess-Gilmore Mission -- Mobile Bay -- The Chicago surrender -- Atlanta -- Sheridan in the Shenandoah -- Cedar Creek -- Cabinet changes -- Lincoln reelected -- Chase as Chief-Justice -- Petersburg -- Reconstruction -- The March to the Sea --
 
 v. 10. Franklin and Nashville -- The Albemarle -- Fort Fisher and Wilmington -- The Thirteenth Amendment -- Blair's Mexican project -- The Hampton Roads Conference -- The Second Inaugural -- Five Forks -- Appomattox -- The fall of the rebel capital -- Lincoln in Richmond -- Johnston's surrender -- The capture of Jefferson Davis -- The fourteenth of April -- The fate of the assassins -- The mourning pageant -- The end of rebellion -- Lincoln's fame


      
   
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