own.

Know-Nothings,
their career in 1854-1856, see vol. i.;
attempt to draw out Lincoln in 1860.

Lamon, Colonel Ward H.,
connection with assassination story, see vol. i.

Lane, James H.,
senator from Kansas, see vol. i.

Lane, Joseph,
nominated for Vice-President on Breckinridge ticket in 1860, see vol. i.

Lee, Robert E.,
offered command of Union army, see vol. i.;
opposes secession;
resigns from army and accepts command of State troops;
becomes Confederate general;
commands against Pope, see vol. ii.;
prepares to invade Maryland;
his contempt for McClellan;
at Antietam;
at Fredericksburg;
outmanoeuvred by Hooker;
at Chancellorsville;
hopes to conquer a peace;
enters Pennsylvania;
retreats after Gettysburg;
sends reinforcements to Bragg;
campaign in Virginia against Meade;
his campaign against Grant;
suggests a conference with Grant;
notifies Davis that Richmond must fall;
his chance of escape;
attacks Federal lines;
tries to escape;
surrenders at Appomattox;
asks for food.

Liberia,
recognized, see vol. ii.

Lincoln, Abraham,
his ignorance concerning his ancestry, see vol. i.;
sensitive regarding it;
his own statements;
anxious to appear of respectable stock;
his genealogy as established later;
his reputed illegitimacy;
his birth;
his references to his mother;
his childhood;
befriended by his step-mother;
his education;
early reading;
early attempts at humorous writing;
storytelling;
youthful exploits;
let out by his father;
helps his father settle in Sangamon County, Ill.;
works for himself;
his trip to New Orleans for Offut;
impressed with slavery;
in Offut's store;
fights Armstrong;
later friendship with Armstrong;
borrows a grammar;
his honesty;
loses situation;
involved in border quarrels;
his temperance considered eccentric;
careless habits of dress;
in the country groceries;
coarseness of speech;
his sympathetic understanding of the people;
his standards dependent on surroundings;
enlists in Black Hawk war;
chosen captain;
his services.

_Frontier Politician_.
Announces himself a candidate for the legislature;
a "Clay man";
his campaign and defeat;
enters grocery store, fails;
pays off debt;
studies law;
postmaster at New Salem;
settles account with government;
surveyor;
elected to legislature;
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