over Lee's surrender, 573;
scene at Capitol, 574-575;
L.'s speech to the multitude, 576;
reconstruction views, 576-581;
instructions to Grant on final conference with Lee, 577-578;
feeling toward the South, 577-580;
pardoning confederates, 579-580;
the last day: talk with Robert, 582;
receives visitors, 583;
last cabinet meeting, 583-584;
significant dreams, 583-584;
drive with Mrs. Lincoln, 584-585;
last official acts, 585-587;
reaches theatre, 587;
the shot fired, 588;
Booth's escape, 588-589;
Walt Whitman's description, 589;
Booth's plan, 590;
Rathbone's account, 590;
death-bed, 591;
Welles's account, 591-594;
a nation's grief, 594-599;
funeral ceremonies at the White House, 596;
lying in state at Capitol, 597;
funeral train to Springfield, 597-598;
interment, 599

Lincoln, Edward Baker, L's son, birth, 111

Lincoln, John, L's great-grandfather, 2

Lincoln, John, L's half-brother, 11

Lincoln, Josiah, L's uncle, 3

Lincoln, Mary Todd, L's wife,
published satirical articles about James Shields, 93;
ambitions, 94;
characteristics, 94;
engagement to L. broken, 95;
marriage, 94, 96;
hospitality, 110;
pro-slavery views, 167;
meeting with Volk, 241;
on inaugural journey, 266;
opinion of Riddle on, 275-276;
censured for frivolity, 450;
defines L's religion, 478;
visits Army of Potomac, 490;
receives Grant, 518-520;
fears of L's assassination, 540;
desired to visit Europe, 549;
last drive with L., 584-585;
plans to visit theatre, 586;
at theatre, 587;
shock at assassination, 589;
prostrated by L's death, 591;
at L's death-bed, 593;
unable to attend obsequies, 596

Lincoln, Matilda, L's half-sister, 11

Lincoln, Mordecai, son of Samuel Lincoln, 2

Lincoln, Mordecai, L's uncle,
adventure with Indians, 3;
character, 3-4;
L's characterization of, 5;
opinion of L. about, 264

Lincoln, Nancy Hanks, L's mother,
marriage, 4;
slurs upon her name, 4-5;
character and appearance, 5;
Dennis Hanks's opinion of, 7;
death and funeral, 10;
epitaph, 10;
love of L. for, 10, 21;
influence on L., 10-11;
tribute of L. to, 11, 352

Lincoln, Robert Todd, L's son,
birth, 111;
student at Harvard, 221;
gripsack anecdote, 283;
student and soldier, 464;
interview with L. about