Includes index Lincoln engraving by Ritchie Lincoln ancestry -- The boyhood of Lincoln -- Young manhood -- The Lincoln in Illinois -- A plunge into politics -- The young politician -- Winning his way -- The rising politician -- Lincoln the lawyer -- A great awakening -- The Kansas struggle -- The coming man -- Lincoln and Douglas -- After a great struggle -- Elected to the presidency -- After the election -- From Springfield to Washington -- Lincoln's inauguration -- President Abraham Lincoln -- Beginning of the great struggle -- The slavery question arises -- A difficult military situation -- The turning of the tide -- Political complications -- The family in the White House -- End of a strange eventful history Fish, D. Lincoln bibliography Monaghan, J. Lincoln bibliography Book, cloth; frontispiece [1] p. of the publisher's advertisements on second prelim. p. verso and [4] p. at end 18