Author:Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln
(1809–1865)

Abraham Lincoln

Works

Inaugural addresses

• First Inaugural Address (4 March 1861)
• Second Inaugural Address (4 March 1865)

State of the Union addresses

• First State of the Union address (3 December 1861)
• Second State of the Union address (1 December 1862)
• Third State of the Union address (8 December 1863)
• Fourth State of the Union address (6 December 1864)

Executive orders and proclamations

• Executive Orders
• Order to Suspend Habeas Corpus, April 27, 1861
• Order to Suspend Habeas Corpus, July 2, 1861
• Amnesty to Political or State Prisoners (February 14, 1862)
• Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation (September 22, 1862)
• Proclamation Suspending Habeas Corpus (September 24, 1862)
• Final Emancipation Proclamation (January 1, 1863)
• The Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
• Proclamation Suspending Habeas Corpus (September 15, 1863)
• Thanksgiving Proclamation (1863) (October 3, 1863)
• Proclamation of Amnesty (December 8, 1863)
• Proclamation Declaring Martial Law and a Further Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus in Kentucky (July 5, 1864)

Other works

• Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 3
  • "I Am Humble Abraham Lincoln"
  • The Improvement of Sangamon River
  • In Favor of Equal Suffrage and Public Improvements
  • Perils of Mobocracy
  • The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions, known as The Lyceum Address (January 27, 1838)
  • Injustice the Foundation of Slavery
  • Against the Sale of State Lands at a Low Price
  • The Home Market and Other Advantages of a Protective Tariff
  • "Spot Resolutions" on Mexican War
  • In Favor of Internal Improvements
  • Eulogy of Henry Clay
• Patent US6469, Buoying vessels over shoals, (May 22, 1859)
• House Divided Speech (June 16, 1858)
• The Lincoln–Douglas debates of 1858
• Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society (1859) (page)
• Cooper Union Speech (1860) (page)
• Farewell Address (1861) (page)
• Address on Colonization to a Deputation of Negroes (1862)
• Gettysburg Address (November 19, 1863)
• Speeches to Ohio Regiments (1864) (page)
• The Peace Conference: Message from President Lincoln (February 11, 1865)
• Final public address (April 11, 1865) (page)
• The Bear Hunt, poem
• Remarkable Case of Arrest for Murder, short story
• Niagara always forever

Letters

• Letter to W. H. Lamon (June 11, 1858)
• Letter to Jesse W. Fell (December 1859)
• Letters to Carl Schurz:
  • 1860: June 18.
  • 1862: November 10 and November 24.
• Letter to A. G. Hodges (April 4, 1864)
• Letter to Mrs. Bixby (November 21, 1864; a current belief is that this was written by his secretary, John Hay)

Telegrams

• Telegram to Lt. Gen. Ulysses Grant at City Point, Virginia (August 17, 1864)

Works about Lincoln

See also: Category:Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

• "The Death of Lincoln", poem by William Bryant
• "The Quakers are Out" by John Greenleaf Whittier about Lincoln's 1860 Presidential campaign
• Abraham Lincoln, president elect of the United States, article published in December 1860 by Once a Week magazine, London.
• "Abraham Lincoln: A Horatian Ode" (1865), poem by Richard Henry Stoddard
• "For the Services in Memory of Abraham Lincoln" (1865) by Oliver Wendell Holmes
• "O Captain! My Captain!" (1865), poem by Walt Whitman
• The Life of Abraham Lincoln (1866), by Josiah Gilbert Holland
• Six Months at the White House (1866) by Francis Bicknell Carpenter
• Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln (1876) by Frederick Douglass
• "Lincoln, Abraham," by Rossiter Johnson in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "Abraham Lincoln," by John G. Nicolay in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 14) (1882)
• The Life of Abraham Lincoln (1885), by Isaac N. Arnold
• Abraham Lincoln: A History (1890) by John G. Nicolay and John Hay
• Abraham Lincoln: An Essay (1891) by Carl Schurz
• Abraham Lincoln, a poem (1895) by Lyman Whitney Allen
• "The Story of Abraham Lincoln" from Four Great Americans (1897) by James Baldwin
• "Lincoln, Abraham," by William Peterfield Trent in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• The Perfect Tribute (1906) by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
• "Lincoln, Abraham," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• Tolstoy on Lincoln (1909) by Leo Tolstoy as told to Count S. Stakelberg
• "A Hero" (1909), poem by Florence Earle Coates
• "Abraham Lincoln address" (1909), by George Llewellyn Christian
• "Lincoln, Abraham," by John George Nicolay and Charles Crawford Whinery in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "His Face" (1911), poem by Florence Earle Coates
• Abraham Lincoln: A Story and a Play (1914) by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
• "Abraham Lincoln" (1914) by John Hay in The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1914
• "Lincoln, Abraham," by Eleanor Atkinson in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Lincoln, Abraham," by Daniel Fish in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Lincoln, Abraham," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
• "If Abraham Lincoln's Father Had Moved Southward, Not Northward", a speculative scenario in the alternate history collection The Ifs of History (1907)

Letters to Lincoln

• Letter from Carl Schurz (May 22, 1860)
• Letter from Carl Schurz (November 8, 1862)
• Letter from Carl Schurz (November 20, 1862)
• Elder Letter to President Lincoln (1864)

Letters of Condolence to his family

• Louis-Philippe to Mary Todd Lincoln, Friday, May 5, 1865