Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865
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100
1911
English
- PREFACE
- EARLY ACQUAINTANCE
- JOURNEY FROM SPRINGFIELD TO WASHINGTON
- INAUGURATION
- GLOOMY FOREBODINGS OF COMING CONFLICT
- HIS SIMPLICITY
- HIS TENDERNESS
- DREAMS AND PRESENTIMENTS
- THE ANTIETAM EPISODE.—LINCOLN'S LOVE OF SONG
- THE HUMOROUS SIDE OF HIS CHARACTER
- HIS LOVE OF CHILDREN
- THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE GETTYSBURG SPEECH
- HIS UNSWERVING FIDELITY TO PURPOSE
- HIS TRUE RELATIONS WITH McCLELLAN
- HIS MAGNANIMITY
- CABINET COUNSELS
- CONFLICT BETWEEN CIVIL AND MILITARY AUTHORITY
- PLOTS AND ASSASSINATION
Abraham Lincoln came to the presidency under a heavy shroud of uncertainty, not only about his threatened life but, of course, the very existence of the United States, which was already falling apart. Ward Hill Lamon was, in effect, his first Secret Service agent, his security guard and this biography, heavily edited by his daughter, Dorothy Lamon (some say TOO heavily edited) sets down for posterity many details surrounding Lincoln's near-fatal journey to his inauguration, how he dealt with day to day presidential decisions and a wide range of interpersonal relationships with the visionaries, schemers and power brokers surrounding him. - Summary by John Greenman
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