Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865 [Illustrated]

This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, linked Footnotes, and linked Index

CONTENTS
Letter from Ex-Secretary Usher.
Letter from A. K. McClure.
Memoir of Ward H. Lamon.
CHAPTER I. EARLY ACQUAINTANCE.
CHAPTER II. JOURNEY FROM SPRINGFIELD TO WASHINGTON.
CHAPTER III. INAUGURATION.
CHAPTER IV. GLOOMY FOREBODINGS OF COMING CONFLICT.
CHAPTER V. HIS SIMPLICITY.
CHAPTER VI. HIS TENDERNESS.
CHAPTER VII. DREAMS AND PRESENTIMENTS.
CHAPTER VIII. THE HUMOROUS SIDE OF HIS CHARACTER.
CHAPTER IX. THE ANTIETAM EPISODE.—LINCOLN'S LOVE OF SONG.
CHAPTER X. HIS LOVE OF CHILDREN.
CHAPTER XI. THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE GETTYSBURG SPEECH.
CHAPTER XII. HIS UNSWERVING FIDELITY TO PURPOSE.
CHAPTER XIII. HIS TRUE RELATIONS WITH McCLELLAN.
CHAPTER XIV. HIS MAGNANIMITY.
CHAPTER XV. CABINET COUNSELS.
CHAPTER XVI. CONFLICT BETWEEN CIVIL AND MILITARY AUTHORITY.
CHAPTER XVII. PLOTS AND ASSASSINATION.

About the Author
"Ward Hill Lamon (January 6, 1828 – May 7, 1893) was a personal friend and self-appointed bodyguard of the American President Abraham Lincoln. Lamon was famously absent the night Lincoln was assassinated, having been sent by Lincoln to Richmond, Virginia." -- Wikipedia