The Wild West -- The Lincoln family -- Early years -- In Indiana -- Second journey to New Orleans -- Desultory employments -- Entering politics -- Entering the law -- On the Circuit -- Social life and marriage -- The encroachments of slavery -- The awakening of the lion -- Two things that Lincoln missed -- Birth of the Republican Party -- The battle of the giants -- Growing audacity of the slave power -- The backwoodsman and the center of Eastern culture -- The nomination of 1860 -- The election
... -- Four long months -- Journey to Washington -- The inauguration -- Lincoln his own president -- Fort Sumter -- The outburst of patriotism -- The war here to stay -- The darkest hour of the war -- Lincoln and Frémont -- Lincoln and McClellan -- Lincoln and Greeley -- Emancipation -- Discouragements -- New hopes -- Lincoln and Grant -- Literary characteristics -- Second election -- Close of the war -- Assassination -- A nation's sorrow -- The measure of a man -- Testimonies Monaghan, J. Lincoln bibliography Fish, D. Lincoln bibliography Copy 1: Bound in cloth; frontispiece, front cover nearly detached Copy 1: Handwritten signature in pencil on flyleaf: James G. Bethell Copy 2, 3: Bound in cloth; frontispiece 18
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