Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House

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[357] 171,172, 173, 171, 175, 176, 250, 296, 319; Five Points' Sunday-School, 133; at Henry Ward Beecher's church. 134; relations with Cabinet, 135; Secretary Cameron's Report, 136; General Patterson, 137; Secretary Cameron's retirement, 138; interview with P. M. Wetmore, (N. Y.,) 140; sensitiveness. 144, 145; “thin skinned,” 145; willingness to receive advice, 146; “canvassed hams,” 148; indifference to personal appearance, 148; Nicolay and Hay, 149; “Nasby letters,” 151; relief found in storytell-ing, 152; Greeley, 152, 153; newspaper reading, 154; newspaper “gas,” 155; newspaper “reliable,” 156; Chicago Times, 156; “ingenious nonsense,” 158; “husked out” 158; 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, 218; “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; Mc-Clellan, 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; “pigeonhearted” 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, 255; 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;