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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| A Note about the Text | |
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| List of Maps and Illustrations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Becoming a Republican | |
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| The Kansas-Nebraska Act | |
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| Speech on the Kansas-Nebraska Act at Peori , Illinois, October 16, 1854 | |
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| Justifications of Slavery | |
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| Fragment on Slavery, possibly 1854 | |
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| �Where I Now Stand� | |
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| Letter to Joshua F. Speed, August 24, 1855 | |
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| The Dred Scott Decision | |
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| Speech on the Dred Scott Decision, June 26, 1857 | |
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| Leading the Republican Party | |
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| A House Divided | |
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| �House Divided� Speech, June 16, 1858 | |
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| The Lincoln-Douglas Debates | |
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| First Lincoln-Douglas Debate, August 21, 1858 | |
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| Fourth Lincoln-Douglas Debate, September 18, 1858 | |
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| Fifth Lincoln-Douglas Debate, October 7, 1858 | |
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| Sixth Lincoln-Douglas Debate, October 13, 1858 | |
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| Seventh Lincoln-Douglas Debate, October 15, 1858 | |
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| The 1860 Campaign for President | |
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| Address at Cooper Institute, February 27, 1860 | |
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| From Secession to War | |
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| The limits of Compromise | |
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| Letter to Lyman Trumbull, December 10, 1860 | |
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| Letter to John A. Gilmer, December 15, 1860 | |
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| Letter to Alexander H. Stephens, December 22, 1860 | |
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| Inauguration as President | |
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| First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861 | |
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| A War to Save the Union | |
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| Message to Congress in Special Session, July 4, 1861 | |
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| War in Earnest | |
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| Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1861 | |
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| Marching South | |
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| �Delay Is Ruining Us� | |
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| President's General War Order No. 1, January 27, 1862 | |
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| The Peninsula Campaign | |
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| Letter to George B. McClellan, February 3, 1862 | |
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| Letter to George B. McClellan, April 9, 1862 | |
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| Letter to George B. McClellan, June 28, 1862 | |
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| Letter to Secretary of State William H. Seward, June 28, 1862 | |
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| The Second Battle of Bull Run and Antietam | |
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| Meditation on Divine Will, September 2, 1862? | |
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| Letter to George B. McClellan, October 13, 1862 | |
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| Home-Front Politics | |
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| Proclamation Suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus, September 24, 1862 | |
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| Letter to Carl Schurz, November 24, 1862 | |
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| Toward Emancipation | |
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| Reassuring Loyal Southerners | |
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| Letter to Orville H. Browning, September 22, 1861 | |
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| Message to Congress, March 6, 1862 | |
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| Appeal to Border-State Representatives to Favor Compensated Emancipation, July 12, 1862 | |
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| Address on Colonization to a Delegation of Black Americans, August 14, 1862 | |
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| Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862 | |
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| Announcing Emancipation | |
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| Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, September 22, 1862 | |
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| Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862 | |
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| Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863 | |
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| A War for Freedom and Union | |
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| Emancipation and Black Soldiers | |
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| Letter to Ulysses S. Grant, August 9, 1863 | |
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| Order of Retaliation, July 30, 1863 | |
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| Letter to Salmon P. Chase, September 2, 1863 | |
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| The Decisive Summer of 1863 | |
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| Letter to Joseph Hooker, January 26, 1863 | |
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| Letter to Ulysses S. Grant, July 13, 1863 | |
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| Letter to George G. Meade, July 14, 1863 | |
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| Politics of War and Freedom | |
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| Letter to James C. Conkling, August 26, 1863 | |
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| The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863 | |
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| Defending a New Birth of Freedom | |
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| War without End | |
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| Letter to Ulysses S. Grant, April 30, 1864 | |
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| Planning Reconstruction | |
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| Letter to Nathaniel P. Banks, August 5, 1863 | |
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| Annual Message to Congress, December 8, 1863 | |
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| Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, December 8, 1863 | |
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| Letter to Michael Hahn, March 13, 1864 | |
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| The Political Campaign for Union, Freedom, and War | |
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| Remarks at Closing of Sanitary Fair, Washington, D.C., March 18, 1864 | |
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| Letter to Albert G. Hodges, April 4, 1864 | |
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| Interview with Alexander W. Randall and Joseph T. Mills, August 19, 1864 | |
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| Memorandum concerning Lincoln's Probable Failure of Re-election, August 23, 1864 | |
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| Glorious Victories | |
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| A Vote for Union, Freedom, and War? | |
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| Response to a Crowd of Supporters, November 10, 1864 | |
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| Letter to Lydia Bixby, November 21, 1864 | |
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| �To Finish the Work We Are In� | |
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| The War Continues | |
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| Annual Message to Congress, December 6, 1864 | |
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| Letter to William T. Sherman, December 26, 1864 | |
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| Letter to Ulysses S. Grant, January 19, 1865 | |
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| Toward Peace and Freedom | |
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| Letter to William H. Seward, January 31, 1865 | |
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| Letter to Ulysses S. Grant, March 3, 1865 | |
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| Resolution Submitting the Thirteenth Amendment to the States, February 1, 1865 | |
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| Message to the Senate and House of Representatives, February 5, 1865 | |
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| �That This Mighty Scourge of War May Speedily Pass Away� | |
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| Second Inaugural Address, March A, 1865 | |
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| Speech to 140th Indiana Regiment, March 17, 1865 | |
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| Letter to Ulysses S. Grant, April 7, 1865 | |
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| Response to a Crowd of Supporters, April 10, 1865 | |
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| Last Public Address, April 11, 1865 | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| An Abraham Lincoln Chronology (1809-1865) | |
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| Questions for Consideration | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |