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<dl><dd>Includes index</dd>
<dd>Includes bibliographical notes</dd>
<dd>Ancestry and early life -- Slavery in Illinois -- First election as senator -- The Kansas war -- The Lecompton fight -- The campaign of 1858 and the John Brown raid -- The election of Lincoln ; Secession -- Cabinet-making ; The death of Douglas -- Fort Sumter -- Bull Run ; The Confiscation Act -- The expulsion of Cameron -- Arbitrary arrests -- Incidents of the years 1863 and 1864 -- The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution -- Reconstruction -- Andrew Johnson's first message -- The Freedmen's Bureau and Civil Rights bills -- The Fourteenth Amendment -- Crossing the Rubicon -- Impeachment -- The McCardle case ; Grant's Cabinet ; The Fifteenth Amendment -- Causes of discontent -- The Liberal Republicans -- Grant's administration -- The Cincinnati Convention -- The Greeley campaign -- Later years -- Conclusion</dd>
<dd>Lincoln copy: Bound in cloth, with gilt-stamped lettering on cover and spine, top edges gilt</dd>
<dd>Lincoln copy: Portrait and facsimile signature on frontispiece; plates accompanied by guard sheets</dd>
<dd>1 18</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Trumbull, Lyman, 1813-1896; Legislators</div>
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White, Horace, 1834-1916</div>
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