5. Did Sherman accomplish his march? What did he leave behind him? What city was captured? Whither did his army march?

6. How long had General Grant been trying in vain to take Richmond? When did the end draw near? What was then the position of the Union army? What attempt was made by General Lee? What action was then taken by General Grant?

7. When and at what place did General Lee surrender? Repeat his parting words to his soldiers.

8. Who surrendered eight days later? Where?

9. When and how was Mr. Lincoln killed?

10. What had he entered upon a few weeks previous? Repeat what you can remember of his inaugural address.

Story.

1. Abraham Lincoln, the son of a poor farmer, was born in Kentucky, in the year 1809.

2. In those early days there were scarcely any schools in our Western country, and very few opportunities of any kind for obtaining an education. Young Lincoln, with less than one year's schooling, learned reading and arithmetic, and, through the help of a kind neighbor, writing. Always eager to acquire knowledge, he improved every opportunity that came in his way.

3. In the evening, after the hard farm labors of the day were over, he might be seen, by the light of a huge log fire, poring over such books as he could borrow in the neighbor

hood. When eighteen years of age the books which he had the privilege of reading were: The Bible, Æsop's Fables, The Pilgrim's Progress, Weem's Life of Washington, The Life of Henry Clay, The Life of Franklin, and Ramsay's Life of Washington.

4. Lincoln was a brave and hardy boy. The navigation of the Mississippi was then exceedingly dangerous, because of snags and shoals. Yet, before he was twenty-one years old, the lad had twice taken charge of a flat-boat, and carried it safely through the perilous voyage to New Orleans.

5. In 1830 the Lincoln family removed to Illinois, and Abraham soon after left his parents to begin life for himself. He studied law, and supported himself whilst thus engaged by land-surveying. In 1836 he was admitted to the bar, and then took up his residence at Springfield, the capital of Illinois. Ten years later he was elected a member of Congress, and in 1860, as you know, became President of the United States.

6. He carried the North successfully through the Civil War, and in the spring of 1865 the “ peace" which he had prayed might "come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time," seemed almost within his grasp.

7. On Good Friday evening, the 14th of April, a few weeks after his second inauguration, Mr. Lincoln went, in order to gratify some friends, to see the play at Ford's theatre, in Washington. He had been there but a short time when a pistol-shot, fired by the hand of John Wilkes Booth, caused him to fall mortally wounded. The President was borne from the theatre and died during the night.

8. The murder of Mr. Lincoln was the result of a conspiracy among a few fanatical partisans of the Confederacy, which aimed also at the lives of other prominent members of the government.

9. About the same hour in which Booth had struck down the principal victim at Ford's theatre, a man entered the dwelling of Mr. Seward, Secretary of State, at that time an invalid confined to his bed. Forcing his way into the sick man's chamber under pretence of bearing a prescription from his medical adviser, the assassin inflicted with a knife several severe but not mortal wounds upon the Secretary.

10. This man, together with other conspirators in this assassination plot, was subsequently arrested, brought to trial, found guilty, and executed in the following July.

11. Booth, who had fled immediately from Washington, was traced and discovered, but his life was taken in the attempt to capture him.

12. The grief felt upon the death of Mr. Lincoln was as universal as it was deep and sincere. Mournful yet triumphal was that journey which bore the remains of the beloved and martyred President to their last resting-place amid the prairies of Illinois. From the 21st of April to the 4th of May, for two entire weeks, that funeral procession lasted. Millions of heart-stricken mourners, of all classes and conditions, of all races, of all religions, and of all political parties, gathered along the route of the long journey to offer the tribute of their sorrow and their affection.

1. Mr. Johnson, the Vice-President, succeeded Mr. Lincoln in his office. The war had ended, but a great deal remained to be done. An army of a million of soldiers was to be disbanded; an immense national debt to be paid off; and the Southern Confederacy to be brought back into the union of States.

2. It was feared that many of the volunteer soldiers, retaining the evil and reckless habits of war, would prove dangerous to the peace of the country.

But it turned out otherwise.

Officers and men alike seemed glad to have done with fighting, and settled down again contentedly to the pursuits of civil life.

3. The work of reconstruction was found to be more difficult. The slaves at the South had been set free by a proclamation of Mr. Lincoln on the first day of January, 1863. Two years later the institution of slavery itself was abolished by an amendment to the Constitution.

4. The views of the new President, Mr. Johnson, were at variance with those of Congress on the question of reorganization. The President was for letting the seceding States come back almost without any conditions. Congress required that they should annul their ordinances of secession, and adopt the amendment to the Constitution which abolished slavery.

5. The disagreement between Congress and the President rose to such a height that it led finally to the impeachment of Mr. Johnson. This means the bringing of an accusation against the Chief Magistrate of a nation, upon which he may be tried. In this case the Senate sat as a court, with the ChiefJustice of the United States for the presiding Judge.

6. Mr. Johnson appeared before it. For his conviction a vote of two-thirds of the members of the