Abraham Lincoln

John G. Nicolay was private secretary to Abraham Lincoln. He held the post up until the president’s assassination in 1865, after which he was appointed United States Consul in Paris. On his return to the USA he became editor of the Chicago Republican. He was Marshall of the United States Supreme Court 1872-87.John Hay served as private secretary to Abraham Lincoln between 1861 and 1865, after which he held various diplomatic posts in Europe. He was Assistant Secretary of State (1879-81) and was Ambassador to Berlin (1897-8) during the presidency of William McKinley. As Secretary of State (1898-1905), he helped negotiate the end of the Spanish American War, supported the decision to retain the Philippines for the USA, and negotiated treaties that gave the United States an exclusive right to build the Panama Canal.Jonathan White is Associate Professor of American Studies, Christopher Newport University, USA. A leading scholar of the American Civil War, his books include Midnight in America: Darkness, Sleep and Dreams during the Civil War (2017), Lincoln on Law, Leadership and Life (2015), Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln (2014), and Abraham Lincoln and Treason in the Civil War: The Trials of John Merryman (2011). He is President of the Abraham Lincoln Institute and a board member of the Abraham Lincoln Association, the Lincoln Forum, and the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia.

• Volume 11.Lineage 2.Indiana 3.Illinois in 1830 4.New Salem 5.Lincoln in the Black Hawk War 6.Surveyor and representative 7.Legislative experience 8.The Lincoln-Stone experience 9.Collapse of "The system" 10.Early law practice 11.Marriage 12.The Shields duel 13.The campaign of 1844 14.Lincoln's campaign for Congress 15.The Thirtieth Congress 16.A fortunate escape 17.The Circuit lawyer 18.The balance of power 19.Repeal of the Missouri Compromise 20.The drift of politics 21.Lincoln and Trumbull 22.The Border Ruffians 23.The bogus laws 24.The Topeka Constitution 25.Civil War in KansasVolume 21.Jefferson Davis on rebellion 2.The Conventions of 1856 3.Congressional Ruffianism 4.The Dred Scott decision 5.Douglas and Lincoln on Dred Scott 6.The Lecompton Constitution 7.The revolt of Douglas 8.The Lincoln-Douglas debates 9.The Freeport Doctrine 10.Lincoln's Ohio speeches 11.Harper's Ferry 12.Lincoln's Cooper Institute speech 13.The Charleston Convention 14.The Baltimore nominations 15.The Chicago Convention 16.Lincoln elected 17.Beginnings of rebellion 18.The Cabinet cabal 19.From the ballot to the bullet 20.Major Anderson 21.The Charleston Forts 22.The President's message 23.The Charleston conspirators 24.Mr. Buchanan's truce 25.The retirement of Cass 26.The Senate committee of thirteen 27.The House committee of thirty-three 28.The conspiracy proclaimed 29.The forty muskets Volume 31.South Carolina secession 2.Personal liberty bills 3.The surrender programme 4.Fort Sumter 5.A blundering commission 6.The Cabinet régime 7.The "Star of the West" 8.Anderson's truce 9.The military situation at Charleston 10.The national defense 11.The Sumter and Pickens truce 12.The cotton "republics" 13.The Montgomery Confederacy 14.Failure of compromise 15.The constitutional amendment 16.The president-elect 17.Stephens's speech 18.Questions and answers 19.Springfield to Washington 20.Lincoln's secret night journey 21.Lincoln's inauguration 22.Lincoln's Cabinet 23. The question of Sumter 24.The rebel game 25. Virginia 26.Premier or presidentVolume 4 1.Fort Pickens reinforced 2. The Sumter expedition 3. The fall of Sumter 4.The call to arms 5.The national uprising 6.Baltimore 7.Washington in danger 8.Rebellious Maryland 9.Texas 10.The Ohio Line 11.Missouri 12.Kentucky 13.The Confederate Military League 14.Civil War 15.European neutrality 16.McClellan and Grant 17.Scott's Anaconda 18.The advance 19.West Virginia 20.Bull Run 21.Congress 22.The contraband 23.Frémont 24.Military emancipation 25.The Army of the Potomac Volume 5 1.Hatters and Port Royal 2.The "Trent" affair 3.The Tennessee Line 4.East Tennessee 5.Halleck 6.Lincoln directs Cooperation 7.Grant and Thomas in Kentucky 8.Cameron and Stanton 9.Plans of campaign 10.Manassas evacuated 11.Fort Donelson 12.Compensated abolishment 13."Monitor" and "Merrimac" 14.Roanoke Island 15.Farragut's victory 16.New Orleans 17.Pea Ridge and Island No. 10 18.The Shiloh Campaign 19.Halleck's Corinth Campaign 20.Yorktown 21.From Williamsburg to Fair Oaks 22.Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign 23.The Seven Days' Battles 24.Harrison's landing Volume 61.Pope's Virginia Campaign 2.Mexico 3.Diplomacy of 1862 4.Meditation declined 5.Signs of the times 6.Emancipation proposed and postponed 7.Antietam 8.Emancipation announced 9.The removal of McClellan 10.Fredericksburg 11.Financial measures 12.Seward and Chase 13.Perryville and Murfreesboro 14.West Virginia admitted 15.Lincoln and the churches 16.Military governors 17.Colonization 18.Missouri guerrillas and politics 19.The Edict of freedom 20.Negro soldiers 21.RetaliationVolume 71.The enrollment and the draft 2.The Lincoln-Seymour correspondence 3.Du Pont before Charleston 4.Chancellorsville 5.Preludes to the Vicksburg Campaigns 6.The Campaign of the Bayous 7.Grant's May battles in Mississippi 8.The invasion of Pennsylvania 9.Gettysburg 10.Vicksburg 11.Port Hudson 12.Vallandigham 13.The defeat of the Peace Party at the polls 14.Maximillian 15.Fort Wagner 16.Prisoners of war Volume 81.Conspiracies in the North 2.Habeas Corpus 3.The march to Chattanooga 4.Chickamauga 5.Chattanooga 6.Burnside in Tennessee 7.Lincoln's Gettysburg Address 8.Missouri radicals and conservatives 9.The line of the Rapidan 10.Foreign relations in 1863 11.Olustee and the Red River 12. The Pomeroy Circular 13.Grant General-in-Chief 14.The wilderness 15.Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor 16.Arkansas free 17.Louisiana free 18.Tennessee free 19.Maryland free 20.Missouri freeVolume 91.Sherman's Campaign to the Chattahoochee 2.The Cleveland Convention 3.Lincoln renominated 4.The resignation of Mr. Chase 5.The Wade-Davis Manifesto 6.The last days of the rebel navy 7.Early's Campaign against Washington 8.Horace Greeley's peace mission 9.The Jaquess-Gilmore Mission 10.Mobile Bay 11.The Chicago surrender 12.Atlanta 13.Sheridan in the Shenandoah 14.Cedar Creek 15.Cabinet changes 16.Lincoln reelected 17.Chase as Chief-Justice 18.Petersburg 19.Reconstruction 20.The March to the SeaVolume 101.Franklin and Nashville 2.The Albemarle 3.Fort Fisher and Wilmington 4.The Thirteenth Amendment 5.Blair's Mexican project 6.The Hampton Roads Conference 7.The Second Inaugural 8.Five Forks 9.Appomattox 10.The fall of the rebel capital 11.Lincoln in Richmond 12.Johnston's surrender 13.The capture of Jefferson Davis 14.The fourteenth of April 15.The fate of the assassins 16.The mourning pageant 17.The end of rebellion 18.Lincoln's fame. 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