letter to Lovejoy Monument Association, 160; Massett, 160; Christian Commission, 162; renomination, 162; apparition, 164; Mrs. Lincoln, 164, 293, 301; speech to committee from Baltimore Convention, and William Lloyd Garrison, 167; Mrs. Cropsey, 168; and soldiers, 169; reprieves, 171; a handsome President, 174; idiotic boy, 176; Andersonville prisoners, 178; retaliation, 178; Fessenden, 182; McCulloch, 184; religious experience, 185–188; rebel ladies, 189; Col. Deming, 190; creeds, 190; Newton Bateman, 192; slavery, 194; prayer, 195; epitaph suggested, 196; Bible presentation, 197; Caroline Johnson, once a slave, 199; Sojourner Truth, 201–203; Frederick Douglass, 204; memorial from children, 204; New Year’s Day, 1865, 205; “walk de earf like de Lord,” 209; Rebel Peace Commissioners, 212; “slave map,” 215; Kilpatrick, 216; personal description, 217, 323; opinion on the war, 219; text applied to Fremont, 220; reappointment of Fremont, 222; California lady’s account of a visit at “Soldiers’ Home,” 223; on “trees,” 224; “school of events,” 225; McClellan, 130, 143, 227, 255; Peace Convention, 229; Henry Ward Beecher, 230; popularity with the soldiers and people, 231; portraits, 46, 231; Lieutenant Cushing, 232; last inaugural, 234; his election to the legislature in 1834, 234; never invented a “story,” 235; first political speech, 236; contest with Douglas, 237; affection for his step-mother, 238; reply to anti-slavery delegation from New York, 239; reply to a clergyman, 239; concerning Gov. Gamble of Missouri, 242; on Seward’s “poetry,” 242; betrothal of Prince of Wales, 243; honesty as a lawyer, 245; “attorney of the people,” 245; “little influence with this administration,” 246; reply to Stanton’s detractor, 246; the German lieutenant, 246; General Grant’s “whiskey,” 247; no personal vices, 247; serenade speeches, 248; his own war minister, 249; illustration from “Euclid,” 249; “pigeon-hearted,” 250; “minneboohoo,” 251; Hannibal’s wars, 253; reports of committees, 253; Brigadier-Generals, 254, 260; twelve hundred thousand rebels in the field, 255; Assessor Gilbert, 255; on canes, 256; hogshead illustration, 256; on Missouri Compromise, 257; “Statute of Limitations,” 257; Blondin crossing Niagara, 257; reply to attacks, 258; Chicago “Democratic Platform,” 259; death of John Morgan, 259; case of Franklin W. Smith, 259; “royal” blood, 261; reading the Bible, 262; thinking of a man down South, 263; presentiment of death, 263; the wards of the nation, 264; Lincoln and Stanton, 265; as a flat-boatman, 267; Louisiana negro, 268; Stonewall Jackson, 268;