LINCOLN'S OFFICE IN THE WHITE HOUSE

Lincoln's office was on the second floor of the White House, in the East Wing. The painting over the fireplace is of Andrew Jackson. This sketch was drawn by C. K. Stellwagen in October 1864.

Western Reserve Historical Society

Lincoln and his secretaries. John G. Nicolay is seated to Lincoln's right, while John Hay is standing.

Collection of Lloyd Ostendorf

LINCOLN ON McCLELLAN:

"He has the slows"

General George B. McClellan

Meserve-Kunhardt Collection

Lincoln visits McClellan's headquarters after Antietam. Baffled by McClellan's inexplicable reluctance to advance after defeating Lee's army at Antietam, Lincoln visited the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac.

Library of Congress

THREE REPUBLICAN RADICALS WHO PUSHED LINCOLN TOWARD EMANc.i.p.aTION

Charles Sumner

The National Archives

Horace Greeley

The National Archives

"A PRACTICAL REMINDER" Colonel David H. Strother's cartoon captured the impatience felt by Lincoln and many other Northerners at McClellan's slowness in advancing on the Confederate capital of Richmond.

Chicago Historical Society

Frederick Dougla.s.s

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Inst.i.tution