"Abraham Lincoln Haskins."
I feel sure the reader will be pleased to see in this book the picture of the triplets, yet living, who were named by President Lincoln.
Mr. Lincoln was reëlected President of the United States, November 8, 1864, and entered upon his second term March 4, 1865. General George B. McClellan was the Democratic candidate. The London Spectator declared the second inaugural address of Mr. Lincoln to be the noblest political document known to history.
In the meantime the war was being industriously prosecuted. Important victories, with some reverses, came to the North from time to time. The rebellion finally collapsed in the fall of Richmond, Virginia, April 3, and the surrender of General Lee to General Grant at Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865.
Mr. Nichols, in his "Life of Abraham Lincoln," says:
"The spontaneous and universal rejoicings of the people of the country at the complete overthrow of the rebellion were such as had never been witnessed before on any continent. Men laughed, cried, shouted, shook hands with each other; there were parades by day and at night. America was illuminated by discharge of fireworks and thousands of torchlight processions. The war was over. Peace stretched her white wings over our beloved land."
CHAPTER XIII.
Death of President Lincoln