Petersburg and Richmond, 509;
begins retreat, 510;
surrender of Richmond, 510;
reaches Amelia Court House, 510;
starts toward Lynchburg, 511;
reply to generals advising him to surrender, 512;
correspondence with Grant, 512, 513;
surrender of, 513-515;
size of army surrendered by, 524

=Letcher, John=, member of Congress, governor of Virginia,
orders seizure of government property, 194

=Lincoln, Abraham=, sixteenth President of the United States,
born February 12, 1800, 3, 6;
goes to A B C schools, 6;
early schooling in Indiana, 10-13;
home studies and youthful habits, 13-19;
manages ferry-boat, 15;
flatboat trip to New Orleans, 15, 16;
employed in Gentryville store, 16;
no hunter, 17;
kills wild turkey, 17, 18;
emigrates to Illinois, March 1, 1830, 20;
leaves his father's cabin, 21;
engaged by Denton Offutt, 21;
builds flatboat and takes it to New Orleans, 22, 23;
incident at Rutledge's Mill, 22;
returns to New Salem, 23;
election clerk, 23, 24;
clerk in Offutt's store, 24;
wrestles with Jack Armstrong, 25;
candidate for legislature, 1832, 29;
address "To the Voters of Sangamon County," 29, 30;
volunteers for Black Hawk War, 32;
elected captain of volunteer company, 32;
mustered out and reenlists as private, 32, 33;
finally mustered out, 33;
returns to New Salem, 33;
defeated for legislature, 33;
enters into partnership with Berry, 35;
sells out to the Trent brothers, 36;
fails, but promises to pay his debts, 36;
surveying instruments sold for debt, 36;
"Honest old Abe," 37;
appointed postmaster of New Salem, 37;
made deputy surveyor, 39, 40;
candidate for legislature, 1834, 41, 42;
elected to legislature, 43;
begins study of law, 44;
admitted to practice, 44;
removes to Springfield and forms law partnership with J.T. Stuart, 44;
reelected to legislature, 44;
services in legislature, 44-48;
manages removal of State capital to Springfield, 45;
Lincoln-Stone protest, 47;
vote for, for Speaker of Illinois House, 48;
his methods in law practice, 49;
notes for law lecture, 49-51;
his growing influence, 52;
guest of William Butler, 53;
intimacy with Joshua F. Speed, 53;
engaged to Anne Rutledge, 54;
her death, 54;
his grief, 55;
courtship of Mary Owens, 55-60;
member of "Long Nine," 61, 62;
debate with Douglas and others, 1839, 62, 63;
meets and becomes engaged to Mar