526-527;
irritated by L's humor, 548;
relations with Blair, 552;
dispatch to Grant, 577;
reconstruction plan proposed, 581;
at L's death-bed, 591, 593;
at Seward's bedside, 592

Steamboat Invention, L's, 24-26

Stearns, George L., 482

Stedman, E.C., quoted, 494-495

Stephens, Alexander H.,
mentioned, 100;
opinion of L. as a speaker, 100-101;
Southern peace commissioner, 555;
L's description of, 556

Stephenson, J.H., 482

Stewart, Harry W., quoted, 213

Stewart, James G., recollection of L's visit to Kansas, 213

Stone, Charles P., quoted, 280, 308-310

Stone River,
costly success, 496;
L's dream, 583;
Grant denies victory, 583

Stories told by L.,
Bob Lewis and the Mormon lands, 334-335;
Big fellow beaten by little wife, 429;
Boy and the troublesome coon, 580;
Darkey arithmetic, 357-358;
Horse sold at cross-roads, 388;
Johnnie Kongapod, 81;
Jones and his bridge to the infernal regions, 338-339;
Letting the dog go, 461-462;
Plaster of psalm-tunes, 337;
Sausages and cats, 260;
Shooting skunks, 373-374;
Sick man of Illinois and his grudge, 344;
Swapping horses in mid-stream, 535;
Sykes's yellow dog, 525-526;
Taking to the woods, 336

Story-telling,
used on troublesome visitors, 30-31;
fondness of L. for, 68, 84, 101, 198;
L. entertains Van Buren, 87;
indelicacy charge refuted, 258;
application of stories, 259;
safety-valve of L., 332-333, 387;
chagrins friends, 357;
relieves bad news by, 461

Stowe, Harriet Beecher,
"Uncle Tom's Cabin," 245;
quoted, 307-308, 462, 472-473

Stuart, J.E.B., 150, 165, 497

Stuart, John T.,
mentioned, 74;
L's first acquaintance with, 38;
law partner of L., 71;
on L's method of accounting, 133

Sumner, Charles,
mentioned, 304, 305, 352, 368, 445, 586;
opposes Nebraska Bill, 153;
eloquence of, 245;
assault upon, 245;
member of inaugural party, 275;
declined to measure backs with L., 336;
lacks confidence in Hooker, 492;
introduces constitutional amendment, 554;
at L's death-bed, 591

Sumter. _See_ Fort Sumter

Swett, Leonard,
associate of L. in law case, 136;
quoted, 181, 257, 542-543

Sykes, George, 504

Taney, R.B.,
administered oath of office to L., 284, 286;
death, 550

Tannatt, T.R., 499, 500

Taylor Club, "the young Indians," 100

Taylor, Richard (Dick), L's discomfiture of, 57-58

Taylor, Zachary,
Black Hawk Wa