This DSI edition contains all 3 Volumes in one binding. The type was reset for a clean look and appearance.


The object of this work is to deal with Mr. Lincoln individually and domestically: as lawyer, as citizen, as statesman. Special attention is given to the history of his youth and early manhood, and while dwelling on this portion of his life the liberty is taken to insert many things that would be omitted or suppressed in other places. The endeavor is to keep Lincoln in sight all the time, to cling close to his side all the way through - leaving to others the more comprehensive task of writing a history of his times. I have no theory of his life to establish or destroy. Mr. Lincoln was my warm devoted friend. - William H. Herndon Springfield, Illinois, 1888


This Edition contains the following Appendix and A Full Index


APPENDIX.


Unpublished Family Letters 613


An Incident on the Circuit 619


Lincoln's Fellow Lawyers 620


The Truce with Douglas. - Testimony of Irwin 621


The Bloomington Convention. 621


An Office Discussion. - Lincoln's Idea of War 622


Lincoln and the Know-Nothings 623


Lincoln's Views on the Rights of Suffrage 625


The Burial of the Assassin Booth 625


A Tribute to Lincoln by a Colleague at the Bar 626


INDEX 629