E-text prepared by Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://archive.org/details/americana) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 39630-h.htm or 39630-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39630/pg39630-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39630/39630-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://archive.org/details/recollectionsofa00lamo Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Small capital text has been replaced with all capitals. Text enclosed by plus signs (+plus+) is underlined. The carat character (^) indicates that the following letter is superscripted (example: D^r Randall). If two or more letters are superscripted they are enclosed in curly brackets (example: M^{rs} Herron). An asterisk following a word in the hand written letters means the word is unclear. RECOLLECTIONS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN [Illustration: _ABRAHAM LINCOLN._] RECOLLECTIONS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN 1847-1865 by WARD HILL LAMON Edited by Dorothy Lamon Teillard Washington, D. C. Published by the Editor 1911 Copyright By Dorothy Lamon A.D. 1895 Copyright, 1911 By Dorothy Lamon Teillard All rights reserved The University Press, Cambridge, U. S. A. PREFACE. The reason for thinking that the public may be interested in my father's recollections of MR. LINCOLN, will be found in the following letter from HON. J. P. USHER, Secretary of the Interior during the war:-- LAWRENCE, KANSAS, May 20, 1885. _Ward H. Lamon, Esq., Denver, Col._