THE GREAT CONSPIRACY
Its Origin and History
Part 7
By John Logan
CONTENTS
CHAPTER XXVIII.
FREEDOM AT LAST ASSURED.
THE WINTER OF 1864—THE MILITARY SITUATION—THE "MARCH TO THESEA"—THOMAS AND HOOD—LOGAN'S INTERVIEW WITH THE PRESIDENT—VICTORIES OFNASHVILLE AND SAVANNAH—MR. LINCOLN'S MESSAGE TO CONGRESS, ON THIRTEENTHAMENDMENT—CONGRESSIONAL RECESS—PRESIDENT LINCOLN STILL WORKING WITH,THE BORDER-STATE REPRESENTATIVES—ROLLINS'S INTERVIEW WITH HIM—THETHIRTEENTH AMENDMENT UP, IN THE HOUSE, AGAIN—VIGOROUS AND ELOQUENTDEBATE—SPEECHES OF COX, BROOKS, VOORHEES, MALLORY, HOLMAN, WOOD, ANDPENDLETON, AGAINST THE AMENDMENT—SPEECHES OF CRESWELL, SCOFIELD,ROLLINS, GARFIELD, AND STEVENS, FOR IT—RECONSIDERATION OF ADVERSEVOTE—THE AMENDMENT ADOPTED—EXCITING SCENE IN THE HOUSE—THE GRAND SALUTE TOLIBERTY—SERENADE TO MR. LINCOLN—"THIS ENDS THE JOB"
CHAPTER XXIX.
LINCOLN'S SECOND INAUGURATION.
REBELLION ON ITS "LAST LEGS"—PEACE COMMISSIONS ANDPROPOSITIONS—EFFORTS OF GREELEY, JACQUES, GILMORE, AND BLAIR—LINCOLN'SADVANCES—JEFFERSON DAVIS'S DEFIANT MESSAGE TO HIM—THE PRESIDENT AND THE REBELCOMMISSIONERS AT HAMPTON ROADS—VARIOUS ACCOUNTS, OF THE SECRETCONFERENCE, BY PARTICIPANTS THE PROPOSITIONS ON BOTH SIDES—FAILURE—THEMILITARY OUTLOOK—THE REBEL CAUSE DESPERATE—REBELDESERTIONS—"MILITARY" PEACE-CONVENTION PROPOSED BY REBELS—DECLINED—CORRESPONDENCEBETWEEN GRANT AND LEE, ETC.—THE SECOND INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENTLINCOLN—A STRANGE OMEN—HIS IMMORTAL SECOND-INAUGURAL
CHAPTER XXX.
COLLAPSE OF THE ARMED CONSPIRACY.
PROGRESS OF THE WAR—CAMPAIGN OF THE CAROLINAS, 1865—MEETING, AT CITYPOINT, OF LINCOLN, GRANT, AND SHERMAN—SHERMAN'S ACCOUNT OF WHATPASSED—GRANT NOW FEELS "LIKE ENDING THE MATTER"—THE BATTLES OF DINWIDDIECOURT HOUSE AND FIVE FORKS—UNION ASSAULT ON THE PETERSBURG WORKS—UNIONVICTORY EVERYWHERE—PETERSBURG AND RICHMOND EVACUATED—LEE'S RETREAT CUTOFF BATTLE OF SAILOR'S CREEK—GRANT ASKS LEE TO SURRENDER—LEEDELAYS—SHERIDAN CATCHES HIM, AND HIS ARMY, IN A TRAP—THE REBELS SURRENDER, ATAPPOMATTOX—GRANT'S GENEROUS AND MAGNANIMOUS TERMS—THE STARVING REBELSFED WITH UNION RATIONS—SURRENDER OF JOHNSTON'S ARMY—OTHER REBEL FORCESSURRENDER—THE REBELLION STAMPED OUT—CAPTURE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS—THEREBELS "YIELD EVERYTHING THEY HAD FOUGHT FOR"—THEY CRAVE PARDON ANDOBLIVION FOR THEIR OFFENCES
CHAPTER XXXI.
ASSASSINATION!
PRESIDENT LINCOLN AT RICHMOND—HIS RECEPTIONS AT JEFFERSON DAVIS'SMANSION—RETURN TO WASHINGTON—THE NEWS OF LEE'S SURRENDER—LINCOLN'SLAST PUBLIC SPEECH—HIS THEME, "RECONSTRUCTION"—GRANT ARRIVES AT THENATIONAL CAPITAL—PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S LAST CABINET MEETING—HI