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Sketch of the life of Abraham Lincoln : compiled in most part from the History of Abraham Lincoln, and the overthrow of slavery   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Author
Arnold, Isaac Newton, 1815-1884
Arnold, Isaac Newton, 1815-1884. The history of Abraham Lincoln, and the overthrow of slavery
Bachelder, John B. (John Badger), 1825-1894
Title
Sketch of the life of Abraham Lincoln : compiled in most part from the History of Abraham Lincoln, and the overthrow of slavery
Publisher
New York : J.B. Bachelder
Description
Lincoln engraving by H.B. Hall, Jr. from a photo by Brady & Co
Sketch of the life of Abraham Lincoln -- Lincoln ancestry -- Boyhood of Lincoln -- Youthful duties and amusements -- Early education -- Elected Captain: Black Hawk War -- Nomination for legislature -- Member of the legislature -- Admitted to the bar -- Practice at the bar -- Professional bearing -- Retirement from the legislature -- Anti-slavery proclivities -- Marriage -- Mary Todd -- Children -- In Congress -- Stephen A. Douglas -- Abolition of slavery at Washington -- Successor in Congress: E.D. Barker -- Beginning of the end of slavery -- Lincoln in the Kansas struggle -- Lincoln and Douglas debate -- Early acquaintance of Lincoln and Douglas -- Douglas as a debater -- Douglas-Lincoln: personal description -- Cooper Institute address -- Chicago Convention: nomination to presidency -- Popular vote: election -- Journey to Washington -- Arrival at Washington -- Reception -- First inauguration -- Civil War -- Thirty-seventh Congress -- Calling out troops -- Regular session of Congress, December 1861 -- Slavery laws passed -- Emancipation Proclamation -- Owen Lovejoy -- Proclamation issued: January 1, 1863 -- Gettysburg: consecration -- New year, 1864 --
Lieutenant-General: nomination of Ulysses S. Grant -- Constitutional amendment abolishing slavery -- Second inauguration -- Visit to Army head-quarters: City Point -- Lincoln-Grant-Sherman: personal appearance -- Union troops enter Richmond -- Visit to Richmond -- Return to Washington -- Review of the Army -- Last days of Lincoln -- Assassination -- Visit to Ford's Theater -- John Wilkes Booth -- Details of the assassination -- President removed from the Theater -- Death of Lincoln -- Scenes in Washington -- Death of Booth -- Attempted assassination of Secretary Seward -- Reception of Mr. Lincoln's death throughout the country -- Meeting of members of Congress -- Committee to attend the remains to Illinois -- Funeral ceremonies -- Funeral cortege: Washington, Philadelphia, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois -- Personal sketches -- Fondness for reading -- Last Sunday of his life -- Conversational powers -- Public speaker -- The words of Lincoln -- Habitual manner of transacting business at the White House -- Description of rooms and furniture -- Etiquette of business reception -- Greatness of his services -- The most democratic President -- Religious creed -- Belief in a god -- Engraved portrait of President Lincoln
Monaghan, J. Lincoln bibliography
Fish, D. Lincoln bibliography
Fish, D. Lincoln bibliography
[18] p. of the publisher's advertisements at end
Bound in cloth; frontispiece (copy 1 and 2)
Bound in cloth; frontispiece, front and back covers nearly detached, loose pages, spine nearly detached (copy 3)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Language English
Publication date 1869
publication_date QS:P577,+1869-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Current location
IA Collections: lincolncollection; americana
Accession number
sketchoflifeofab00inarno
Authority file  OCLC: 1157215512
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Internet Archive identifier: sketchoflifeofab00inarno
https://archive.org/download/sketchoflifeofab00inarno/sketchoflifeofab00inarno.pdf
  • IA contributor: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
  • IA digitizing sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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