Recollections of Abraham LincolnWhen President-elect Abraham Lincoln was preparing to go to Washington he appealed to his old friend and law partner Ward Hill Lamon: ?I want you to go along with me. . . . In fact I must have you. So get yourself ready and come along.? Lamon journeyed from Springfield to Washington in 1861 and returned to Illinois in mourning in 1865. Lincoln chose Lamon as his bodyguard when he slipped into Washington by night to foil conspirators intent on murder. The president sent him on missions and appointed him marshal of the District of Columbia. During that time of civil war Lincoln was often dispirited, and Lamon tried to cheer him. These recollections were compiled from Lamon?s notes and papers by his daughter, Dorothy, and published in 1895. The expanded second edition of 1911 has been used for this reprinting. Recollections of Abraham Lincoln has often been cited for its firsthand testimony about key episodes and incidents, including at the phantom-like train trip to Washington in 1861, a visit to Charleston during the secession crisis, and Lincoln?s foreboding dreams. As James A. Rawley points out in his introduction, Lamon?s recollections of Lincoln?s personal qualities an presidency are important to history. |
Contents
xvi | |
Difficulties attending the Execution of the Fugitive Slave | xxiii |
Civil Authority outranked the Military | xxxiii |
Mr Lincolns Last Drive | xliii |
CHAPTER I | 9 |
Low Charges for Professional Service | 15 |
Introduction to Mrs Lincoln | 21 |
Plans for Safety | 35 |
Death of Mr Lincolns Favorite Child | 159 |
CHAPTER XI | 169 |
Extract from Wendell Phillipss Speech | 188 |
Mr Lincolns Treatment of the Subject of Dictatorship | 195 |
Ploughed around him | 200 |
not want to use it | 202 |
Mr Lincoln hopes to be Dumped on the Right Side of | 208 |
Busy letting Rooms while the House was on Fire | 214 |
Formation of Cabinet and Administration Policy | 49 |
Judge J S Black on Slavery as regarded by the Southern | 57 |
CHAPTER V | 80 |
Case of Young Man convicted of Sleeping at his Post | 86 |
Reprieve given to a Man whom a little Hanging would | 87 |
Mr Lincoln dismisses Committee of FaultFinding Clergy | 93 |
Origin of Phrase Government of the People by the Peo | 96 |
Bearing a Title should not injure the Austrian Count | 99 |
Letters of Condolence 106108 | 105 |
SuperstitionA Rent in the Veil which hides from Mortal | 111 |
Mr Lincoln calls himself Only a Retail StoryDealer | 125 |
If a Cause of Action is Good it needs no Vindication | 145 |
Proud? | 153 |
First Proposition to Mr Lincoln to issue InterestBearing | 220 |
The Trent Affair | 227 |
Universal Suffrage One of Doubtful Propriety | 242 |
Mr Lincoln and Jefferson Davis on an Imaginary Island | 248 |
Marshals Office made a Subject of Legislation in Congress | 259 |
Lincolns Last Laugh | 283 |
Lincoln in a Law Case | 291 |
Lincolns Views of the American or KnowNothing Party | 299 |
Account of Arrangement for Cooper Institute Speech | 303 |
Shrewdness | 309 |
Religion | 333 |
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