Table of Contents

A Home in the Wilderness
Life on a Frontier Farm
Living from Hand to Mouth
Better Times Ahead
New Faces and Scenes
Striking Out for Himself
A Start in Public Life
Lincoln, the Lawyer
Lincoln the Legislator
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The "Rail-Splitter" Is Nominated for President
A Red-Hot Election
A Captain in a Storm
The First Days of War
The Commander-in-Chief
Lincoln's Home Life
The Emancipation Proclamation
Gettysburg
Lincoln Is Reelected
The Closing Scene
A Nation's Grief

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