Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings Vol. 2 1859-1865 (LOA #46)

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Abraham Lincoln was the greatest writer of the Civil War as well as its greatest political leader. His clear, beautiful, and at times uncompromisingly severe language forever shaped the nation’s
understanding of its most terrible conflict. This volume, along with its companion, Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832–1858, comprises the most comprehensive selection ever published. Over 550 speeches, messages, proclamations, letters, and other writings—including the Inaugural and Gettysburg addresses and the moving condolence letter to Mrs. Bixby—record the words and deeds with which Lincoln defended, preserved, and redefined the Union.

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
 

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Contents

To W H Wells January 8 1859 I
1
Speech at Chicago Illinois March 1 1859
17
To Salmon P Chase June 9 1859
24
Notes for Speech at Columbus Ohio September 16 1859 29
90
To George W Dole Gurdon S Hubbard
103
To Norman B Judd February 9 1860
109
To Mary Todd Lincoln March 4 1860
130
To Mark W Delahay March 16 1860
152
To Mary Todd Lincoln June 9 1863
453
To Joseph Hooker May 7 1863
464
To William Kellogg June 29 1863
471
To Isaac N Arnold May 26 1863
478
To Oliver 0 Howard July 21 1863
481
To Nathaniel P Banks August S 1863
487
To James H Hackett August 17 1863
493
To John P Gray September 10 1863
502

To Charles C Nott May 31 1860
158
To Samuel Haycraft June 4 1860
167
To Lyman Trumbull June s 1860
169
Remarks at Republican Rally Springfield Illinois
175
Imaginary Dialogue Between Douglas and Breckinridge
181
To Truman Smith November 10 1860
185
To Thurlow Weed December 17 1860
192
To Thurlow Weed February 4 1861
198
Speech to Germans at Cincinnati Ohio
203
Address to the New Jersey Senate at Trenton
209
First Inaugural Address March 4 1861
215
To Schuyler Colfax March 8 1861
224
Proclamation Calling Militia and Convening Congress
232
Proclamation of Blockade April 19 1861
233
Message to Congress in Special Session July 4 1861
246
To Simon B Buckner July 10 1861
262
To Oliver P Morton September 29 1861
270
Drafts of Bill for Compensated Emancipation in Delaware
276
Draft of Letter to Senate from Ward H Lamon
298
Message to Congress March 6 1862
307
To Henry W Halleck January is 1862
316
To George B McClellan May 24 1862
322
To Edwin M Stanton June s 1862
329
To William H Seward June 28 1862
335
To George B McClellan July 13 1862
342
To AgénorEtienne de Gasparin August 4 1862
348
To John M Clay August 9 1862
351
To Horace Greeley August 22 1862
359
To George B McClellan September 15 1862
367
Record of Dismissal of John J Key September 2627 1862
373
Order for Sabbath Observance November 15 1862
382
To Carl Schurz November 24 1862
388
Annual Message to Congress December 1 1862
394
481
400
To Fernando Wood December 12 1862
417
To Hiram Walbridge December 28 1862
420
To Henry W Halleck January 1 1863
426
To John A McClernand January 22 1863
433
To Henry W Davis March 18 1863
439
Speech to Indian Chiefs Washington D C
441
To John M Schofield July 20 1863
450
To Jesse K Dubois and Ozias M Hatch
509
To Ambrose E Burnside September 25 1863
515
To William S Rosecrans October 4 1863
521
Approval of Sentence of David M Wright
527
To George G Meade August 27 1863
528
To Benjamin F Flanders November 9 1863
534
Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
555
To Thomas Cottman December 15 1863
559
Endorsement Concerning Henry Andrews
565
To Edwin M Stanton February 1 1864
571
To John A Andrew February 18 1864
575
To Edwin M Stanton March 18 1864
581
To Mrs Horace Mann April s 1864
587
Address at Sanitary Fair Baltimore Maryland
589
To Charles Sumner May 19 1864
595
To Edward Bates June 24 1864
602
To Horace Greeley July 9 1864
606
To Stephen G Burbridge October 27 1864
616
To Ulysses S Grant August 14 1864
619
Speech to the 16th Ohio Regiment Washington D C
624
Endorsement Concerning Thomas Berington
628
Proclamation of Thanksgiving October 20 1864
637
Response to Serenade Washington D C
641
To Edwin M Stanton September 1 1863
662
Annual Message to Congress December 6 1864
663
To the Senate and House of Representatives
673
To Thomas C Fletcher February 20 1865
684
Speech to the 140th Indiana Regiment Washington D C
690
To Godfrey Weitzel April 6 1865
694
To Godfrey Weitzel April 12 1865
701
Note on the Texts
721
Verse on Lees Invasion of the North July 19 1863 480
722
Stay of Execution for Nathaniel Gordon
738
To George B McClellan October 13 1862
741
To Edwin M Stanton June 4 1863
751
To Samuel R Curtis June 8 1863
759
303
760
Message to the Army of the Potomac December 22 1862
761
320
766
376
776
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About the author (1989)

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was the sixteenth president of the United States, guiding the nation through the Civil War before becoming one of its final vicitims, assasinated at Ford's Theater in Washington on April 15, 1865, less than a week after the surrender of the Confederate army at Appomattox.

Don E. Fehrenbacher (1920-1997) was professor of history at Stanford University. He was the author of several books, including Prelude to Greatness: Lincoln in the 1850's, The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics, and Lincoln in Text and Context.

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TitleAbraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings Vol. 2 1859-1865 (LOA #46)
Volume 2 of Library of America Abraham Lincoln Edition
AuthorAbraham Lincoln
PublisherLibrary of America, 1989
ISBN0940450631, 9780940450639
Length800 pages
  
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