_Lossing's Field Book of the War of_ 1812.--_Lewis and Clarke's Journal_.--_Mackenzie's Life of Paul Jones_. --_Parton's Life of Jackson; also of Aaron Burr_.--_Cooper's History of the American Navy_.--_Irving's Astoria_. --_Powell's Life of Taylor_.--_Fremont's Explorations_. --_Benton's_ 30 _Years View of Public Affairs_. --_Street and Reid's Osceola_ (_Poem_).--_Ripley's War with Mexico_.--_Hull's Military and Civil Life_. --_Parker's Historic Americans_.--_Lossing's Eminent Americans_.--_McPherson's Political History of the United States_.--_Tome's Battles of America by Sea and Land_. --_Lowell's Bigelow Papers_.--_The Exiles of Florida, by Giddings_.--_Jay's Mexican War and Dawson's American Battle-fields_.--"_The Mississippi Scheme_" _in Mackay's Popular Delusions_.--_Mrs. John Adams's Correspondence_. --_Headley's Second War with England_.--_Whittier's Angel of Buena Vista_ (_Poetry_).--_Randall's and Tucker's Lives of Jefferson_.--_Griswold's Court of Washington_. --_Clarke's Campaign of_ 1812.--_Ingersoll's Second War with Great Britain_--_Wilson's Sketches of Illustrious Soldiers_.--_Martin's Civil Government_ (_Constitution of U. S._). EPOCH V. THE CIVIL WAR. From 1861--Inauguration of Lincoln, To 1865--Surrender of Lee's Army. LINCOLN'S ADMINISTRATION. [Footnote: Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky, February 12, 1809; died in Washington, April 15, 1865. His father was unable to read or write, and his own education consisted of one-year's schooling. When he was eight years old his father moved to Indiana, the family floating down the Ohio on a raft. When nineteen years of age, the future President hired out as a hand on a flat-boat at $10 per month, and made a trip to New Orleans. On his return he accompanied the family to Illinois, driving the cattle on the journey. Having reached their destination he helped them to build a cabin, and to split rails to enclose the farm. He was now in succession a flat-boat hand, clerk, captain of a company of volunteers in the Black Hawk War, country store-keeper, postmaster, and surveyor, yet he managed to get a knowledge of law by borrowing books at an office before it closed at night, returning them at its opening in the morning. On being admitted to the bar, he rapidly rose to distinction. At twenty-five he was sent to the Legislature, and was thrice re-elected. Turning his attention to politics, he soon became a leader. He was sent to Congress; he canvassed the State, haranguing the people daily on great national questions; and, in 1858, he was candidate for Senator, a second time, against Stephen A. Douglas. The two rivals stumped the State together. The debate, unrivalled for its statesmanship, logic, and wit, won for Lincoln a national reputation, but he lost the election in the Legislature, his party being in the minority. After his accession to the Presidency, his history, like Washington's, is identified with that of his country.