Lincoln's Second Presidential Term--His Attitude toward it--Rival Candidates for the Nomination--Chase's Achillean Wrath--Harmony Restored--The Baltimore Convention--Decision "not to Swap Horses while Crossing a Stream"--The Summer of 1864--Washington again Threatened--Lincoln under Fire--Unpopular Measures--The President's Perplexities and Trials--The Famous Letter "To Whom It May Concern"--Little Expectation of Re-election--Dangers of Assassination--A Thrilling Experience--Lincoln's Forced Serenity--"The Saddest Man in the World"--A Break in the Clouds--Lincoln Vindicated by Re-election--Cheered and Reassured--More Trouble with Chase--Lincoln's Final Disposal of Him--The President's Fourth Annual Message--His Position toward the Rebellion and Slavery Reaffirmed--Colored Folks' Reception at the White House--Passage of the Amendment Prohibiting Slavery--Lincoln and the Southern Peace Commissioners--The Meeting in Hampton Roads--Lincoln's Impression of A.H. Stephens--The Second Inauguration--Second Inaugural Address--"With Malice toward None, with Charity for All"--An Auspicious Omen CHAPTER XXVIII Close of the Civil War--Last Acts in the Great Tragedy--Lincoln at the Front--A Memorable Meeting--Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, and Porter--Life on Shipboard--Visit to Petersburg--Lincoln and the Prisoners--Lincoln in Richmond--The Negroes Welcoming Their "Great Messiah"--A Warm Reception--Lee's Surrender--Lincoln Receives the News--Universal Rejoicing--Lincoln's Last Speech to the Public--His Feelings and Intentions toward the South--His Desire for Reconciliation CHAPTER XXIX The Last of Earth--Events of the Last Day of Lincoln's Life--The Last Cabinet Meeting--The Last Drive with Mrs. Lincoln--Incidents of the Afternoon--Riddance to Jacob Thompson--A Final Act of Pardon--The Fatal Evening--The Visit to the Theatre--The Assassin's Shot--A Scene of Horror--Particulars of the Crime--The Dying President--A Nation's Grief--Funeral Obsequies--The Return to Illinois--At Rest in Oak Ridge Cemetery INDEX ILLUSTRATIONS Abraham Lincoln _From an Original Drawing by J.N. Marble, never before published_ Francis F. Browne Abraham Lincoln [Illustration: A. Lincoln] THE EVERY-DAY LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN CHAPTER I Ancestry--The Lincolns in Kentucky--Death of Lincoln's Grandfather--Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks--Mordecai Lincoln--Birth of Abraham Lincoln--Removal to Indiana--Early Years--Dennis Hanks--Lincoln's Boyhood--Death of Nancy Hanks--Early School Days--Lincoln's First Dollar--Presentiments of Future Greatness--Down the Mississippi--Removal to Illinois--Lincoln's Father--Lincoln the Storekeeper--First Official Act--Lincoln's Short Sketch of His Own Life.