Memorandum of Military Programme, July 23, 1861............................... 95
General War Order No. 3, March 8, 1862..
General War Order, March 13, 1862...........
Presidential Orders, June 22, 1862

130

131

161

Order Establishing Provisional Court, October 20, 1862........ 211
President's Order Relieving General McClellan, November

5, 1862.........

215

Approval of Court-Martial Proceedings, January 21, 1863.... 246
War Bulletin―Official, July 31, 1863....................
Orders for National Salutes, September 5, 1864......

301

375

Thanks to Ohio Volunteers, September 10, 1864.....

376

Thanks to Volunteers of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Wis-

consin, October 1, 1864.........

381

Presidential Order, April 6, 1865

417

CALLS FOR NATIONAL THANKS.

.. 287

. 360

Call for Thanksgiving and Prayer, July, 1863...
Call for Thanksgiving and Prayer, May 9, 1864..
National Thanks to Farragut and Canby, September 3, 1864.. 373
National Thanks to General Sherman, September 3, 1864.... 374
Call for National Thanksgiving, September 3, 1864...

373

MISCELLANEOUS.

Lincoln's Statement of how he Entered Washington, Febru-

ary 23, 1861......

45

Letter on Missouri Matters, November 5, 1861........
Nomination of John Pope as Major-General, March 22,
1862......

106

132

Nomination of Fitz John Porter as Major-General, July 16,
1862......

175

Letter Regarding Thomas W. Knox, March 20, 1863............ 251
Announcement of the Success of the Army of the Potomac,
July 4, 1863...................

-280

Communication to the House of Representatives, Novem-
ber, 1863.

327

Lincoln's Description of Grant to a Friend, March, 1864...... 350
Communication to House of Representatives, April 28, 1864. 358
Interview Published in New York Tribune, January 30,

1861......

16

Words to General Grant, April 9, 1864 ..........
The President's Idea of Democratic Policy and Strategy,
May, 1864........

354

....

360

Last Public Utterances of President Lincoln, April 14, 1865. 424
To Whom it May Concern, July 18, 1864......

370

Last Written Words, April 14, 1865..............

425

To Whom it May Concern, November 1, 1862
To Whom it May Concern, October 27, 1863.....

213

324

POEMS AND HYMNS.

Oh! Why Should the Spirit of Mortal be Proud?.
Closing Hymn at Lincoln's Burial..........

61

425