s, 416;
McClellan's pass to Richmond, 454;
McCormick reaper case, 173-175;
McCullough thanked by L., 469-470;
Major-generals and hard tack, 400;
Manners, first lesson, 13;
Measuring backs with Sumner, 336;
Measuring height with Ab McElrath, 274-275;
Measuring height with a Southerner, 247;
Measuring height with a young "Sucker," 254;
Meeting with Smoot, 29-30;
Mrs. White, southern sympathizer, 453;
"Monarch of all you survey," 47;
Name refused for commercial use, 452;
Negroes at White House reception, 552-553;
Negroes welcome their "Great Messiah," 569-571;
Noisy and boastful fighter, 189;
Office-seeker from Wisconsin repulsed, 353;
Office-seeker, unfit, 307;
Old sign, "Lincoln and Herndon," 264-265;
Old woman and the bread and milk, 255;
One-legged soldier, lack of credentials, 451-452;
Oratorical success discussed with Gulliver, 222-223;
Pardon for deserters, 397;
Pardon for young soldier, 396-397;
Pardoning prisoners of war, 578-580;
Pass given Laura Jones, Southerner, 453;
Paymaster, appointment, 377-378;
Philadelphia receives news of L's death, 594-596;
Pig rescued from a pit, 76-77;
Pigeon holes versus letter files, 474;
Powder sample, testing, 383-384;
Quaker demand for emancipation, 425-427;
Quakers sent home, 398;
Rail making, 230-231;
Reading Nasby during election returns, 548;
Rebel mail examined, 354-355;
Rebels number twelve hundred thousand, 454;
Revolutionary War defended, 77-78;
Sandwich Islands, commissioner, applicants, 339;
School of events, suggestion, 475;
Scott's request concerning wife's body, 408-410;
Scott "unable as a politician," 337;
Sherman and the officer, 328-329;
Sherman after Bull Run, 327-329;
Sherman's visit from Louisiana, 299;
Sitting for life-mask, 237-243;
Skunks, shooting, 373-374;
Slave girl sold, 147;
Slavery speech criticised by Long, 181-182;
Soldiers' humor, 399, 400;
"Something everybody can take," 460;
South Carolina lady's visit, 297-298;
Stanton calls L. a d----d fool, 378;
"Stoning Stephen," 204;
Storekeeper in New Salem, 43;
Strength, physical, 92-93;
Stump speech, first appearance, 41;
Sun doesn't set, 20;
Swapping horses mid stream, 535;
Sykes's yellow dog 525-526;
Tad and the scattered pages of L's speech, 575-576;
Tad's grief over death of father, 596;
"Taking the wind out of his sails," 88;
Talking against time,