'Abraham Lincoln: A History' covers his whole life from 1809-1865 in 10 very detailed volumes. Volumes 2-3 appear to have lots of details about the foreign conspiracies to interfere with governing of the country leading up to the Civil War.
Nicolay and Hay were Lincoln's personal secretaries/assistants.
Most interesting factoid in his early life (Volume 1) was his father's close association with Daniel Boone.
This information comes from a dig I was doing on the structure of the "Union" government after the 1861 bankruptcy of the United States and when/how Lincoln was running the country with a military United States while still preserving the "perpetual union" created in the Articles of Confederation and the "more perfect union" updated version created with the Constitution for the united states of America (1788).
I have included links to both the high resolution scans of the first edition of 1890 from Arthur Dixon's collection as well as Audiobook links which I found along with the texts.
VOL. 1. Lineage -- Indiana -- Illinois in 1830 -- New Salem -- Lincoln in the Black Hawk War -- Surveyor and representative -- Legislative experience -- The Lincoln-Stone experience -- Collapse of "The system" -- Early law practice -- Marriage -- The Shields duel -- The campaign of 1844 -- Lincoln's campaign for Congress -- The Thirtieth Congress -- A fortunate escape -- The Circuit lawyer -- The balance of power -- Repeal of the Missouri Compromise -- The drift of politics -- Lincoln and Trumbull -- The Border Ruffians -- The bogus laws -- The Topeka Constitution -- Civil War in Kansas --
VOL. 2. Jefferson Davis on rebellion -- The Conventions of 1856 -- Congressional Ruffianism -- The Dred Scott decision -- Douglas and Lincoln on Dred Scott -- The Lecompton Constitution -- The revolt of Douglas -- The Lincoln-Douglas debates -- The Freeport Doctrine -- Lincoln's Ohio speeches -- Harper's Ferry -- Lincoln's Cooper Institute speech -- The Charleston Convention -- The Baltimore nominations -- The Chicago Convention -- Lincoln elected -- Beginnings of rebellion -- The Cabinet cabal -- From the ballot to the bullet -- Major Anderson -- The Charleston Forts -- The President's message -- The Charleston conspirators -- Mr. Buchanan's truce -- The retirement of Cass -- The Senate committee of thirteen -- The House committee of thirty-three -- The conspiracy proclaimed -- The forty muskets --
VOL. 3. South Carolina secession -- Personal liberty bills -- The surrender programme -- Fort Sumter -- A blundering commission -- The Cabinet regime -- The "Star of the West" -- Anderson's truce -- The military situation at Charleston -- The national defense -- The Sumter and Pickens truce -- The cotton "republics" -- The Montgomery Confederacy -- Failure of compromise -- The constitutional amendment -- The president-elect -- Stephens's speech -- Questions and answers -- Springfield to Washington -- Lincoln's secret night journey -- Lincoln's inauguration -- Lincoln?s Cabinet -- The question of Sumter -- The rebel game -- Virginia -- Premier or president --
VOL. 4. Fort Pickens reinforced -- The Sumter expedition -- The fall of Sumter -- The call to arms -- The national uprising -- Baltimore -- Washington in danger -- Rebellious Maryland -- Texas -- The Ohio Line -- Missouri -- Kentucky -- The Confederate Military League -- Civil War -- European neutrality -- McClellan and Grant -- Scott's Anaconda -- The advance -- West Virginia -- Bull Run -- Congress -- The contraband -- Fremont -- Military emancipation -- The Army of the Potomac --
VOL. 5. Hatters and Port Royal -- The "Trent" affair -- The Tennessee Line -- East Tennessee -- Halleck -- Lincoln directs Cooperation -- Grant and Thomas in Kentucky -- Cameron and Stanton -- Plans of campaign -- Manassas evacuated -- Fort Donelson -- Compensated abolishment -- "Monitor" and "Merrimac" -- Roanoke Island -- Farragut's victory -- New Orleans -- Pea Ridge and Island No. 10 -- The Shiloh Campaign -- Halleck's Corinth Campaign -- Yorktown -- From Williamsburg to Fair Oaks -- Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign -- The Seven Days' Battles --Harrison's landing --
VOL. 6. Pope's Virginia Campaign -- Mexico -- Diplomacy of 1862 -- Meditation declined -- Signs of the times -- Emancipation proposed and postponed -- Antietam -- Emancipation announced -- The removal of McClellan -- Fredericksburg -- Financial measures -- Seward and Chase -- Perryville and Murfreesboro -- West Virginia admitted -- Lincoln and the churches -- Military governors -- Colonization -- Missouri guerrillas and politics -- The Edict of freedom -- Negro soldiers -- Retaliation --
VOL. 7. The enrollment and the draft -- The Lincoln-Seymour correspondence -- Du Pont before Charleston -- Chancellorsville -- Preludes to the Vicksburg Campaigns -- The Campaign of the Bayous -- Grant's May battles in Mississippi -- The invasion of Pennsylvania -- Gettysburg -- Vicksburg -- Port Hudson -- Vallandigham -- The defeat of the Peace Party at the polls -- Maximillian -- Fort Wagner -- Prisoners of war --
VOL. 8. Conspiracies in the North -- Habeas Corpus -- The march to Chattanooga -- Chickamauga -- Chattanooga -- Burnside in Tennessee -- Lincoln's Gettysburg Address -- Missouri radicals and conservatives -- The line of the Rapidan -- Foreign relations in 1863 -- Olustee and the Red River -- The Pomeroy Circular -- Grant General-in-Chief -- The wilderness -- Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor -- Arkansas free -- Louisiana free -- Tennessee free -- Maryland free -- Missouri free --
VOL. 9. Sherman's Campaign to the Chattahoochee -- The Cleveland Convention -- Lincoln renominated -- The resignation of Mr. Chase -- The Wade-Davis Manifesto -- The last days of the rebel navy -- Early's Campaign against Washington -- Horace Greeley's peace mission -- The Jaquess-Gilmore Mission -- Mobile Bay -- The Chicago surrender -- Atlanta -- Sheridan in the Shenandoah -- Cedar Creek -- Cabinet changes -- Lincoln reelected -- Chase as Chief-Justice -- Petersburg -- Reconstruction -- The March to the Sea --
VOL. 10. Franklin and Nashville -- The Albemarle -- Fort Fisher and Wilmington -- The Thirteenth Amendment -- Blair's Mexican project -- The Hampton Roads Conference -- The Second Inaugural -- Five Forks -- Appomattox -- The fall of the rebel capital -- Lincoln in Richmond -- Johnston's surrender -- The capture of Jefferson Davis -- The fourteenth of April -- The fate of the assassins -- The mourning pageant -- The end of rebellion -- Lincoln's fame
1890 TEXTS that have Arthur Dixon 3131 Michigan Avenue may very well be this Chicago Alderman that died in 1917. He appears to have his own crest/seal that he has placed/stamped on the inside cover.
'Abraham Lincoln: A History' covers his whole life from 1809-1865 in 10 very detailed volumes. Volumes 2-3 appear to have lots of details about the foreign conspiracies to interfere with governing of the country leading up to the Civil War.
Nicolay and Hay were Lincoln's personal secretaries/assistants.
Most interesting factoid in his early life (Volume 1) was his father's close association with Daniel Boone.
Interesting 1854 Map on pages 354-355 of Volume 1. https://archive.org/details/abrahamlinco1196nico/page/354/mode/2up
This information comes from a dig I was doing on the structure of the "Union" government after the 1861 bankruptcy of the United States and when/how Lincoln was running the country with a military United States while still preserving the "perpetual union" created in the Articles of Confederation and the "more perfect union" updated version created with the Constitution for the united states of America (1788).
I have included links to both the high resolution scans of the first edition of 1890 from Arthur Dixon's collection as well as Audiobook links which I found along with the texts.
---NOTES: 4 ADDITIONAL PAGES IN 1890 VERSION---
TEXT:[1890,542pp,A.Dixon] https://archive.org/details/abrahamlinco1196nico/page/n13/mode/2up
AUDIOBOOK: https://archive.org/details/lincolnvol1_1305_librivox
VOL. 1. Lineage -- Indiana -- Illinois in 1830 -- New Salem -- Lincoln in the Black Hawk War -- Surveyor and representative -- Legislative experience -- The Lincoln-Stone experience -- Collapse of "The system" -- Early law practice -- Marriage -- The Shields duel -- The campaign of 1844 -- Lincoln's campaign for Congress -- The Thirtieth Congress -- A fortunate escape -- The Circuit lawyer -- The balance of power -- Repeal of the Missouri Compromise -- The drift of politics -- Lincoln and Trumbull -- The Border Ruffians -- The bogus laws -- The Topeka Constitution -- Civil War in Kansas --
TEXT:[1890,524pp,A.Dixon] https://archive.org/details/abrahamlinc02nico/page/n7/mode/2up
AUDIOBOOK: https://archive.org/details/abraham_lincoln_history_2_1603_librivox
VOL. 2. Jefferson Davis on rebellion -- The Conventions of 1856 -- Congressional Ruffianism -- The Dred Scott decision -- Douglas and Lincoln on Dred Scott -- The Lecompton Constitution -- The revolt of Douglas -- The Lincoln-Douglas debates -- The Freeport Doctrine -- Lincoln's Ohio speeches -- Harper's Ferry -- Lincoln's Cooper Institute speech -- The Charleston Convention -- The Baltimore nominations -- The Chicago Convention -- Lincoln elected -- Beginnings of rebellion -- The Cabinet cabal -- From the ballot to the bullet -- Major Anderson -- The Charleston Forts -- The President's message -- The Charleston conspirators -- Mr. Buchanan's truce -- The retirement of Cass -- The Senate committee of thirteen -- The House committee of thirty-three -- The conspiracy proclaimed -- The forty muskets --
TEXT:[1890,536pp,A.Dixon] https://archive.org/details/abrahamlincoln1198nico/page/n9/mode/2up
AUDIOBOOK: https://archive.org/details/abraham_lincoln_a_history_3_1607_librivox
VOL. 3. South Carolina secession -- Personal liberty bills -- The surrender programme -- Fort Sumter -- A blundering commission -- The Cabinet regime -- The "Star of the West" -- Anderson's truce -- The military situation at Charleston -- The national defense -- The Sumter and Pickens truce -- The cotton "republics" -- The Montgomery Confederacy -- Failure of compromise -- The constitutional amendment -- The president-elect -- Stephens's speech -- Questions and answers -- Springfield to Washington -- Lincoln's secret night journey -- Lincoln's inauguration -- Lincoln?s Cabinet -- The question of Sumter -- The rebel game -- Virginia -- Premier or president --
TEXT:[1890,562pp,A.Dixon] https://archive.org/details/abrahamlincol04nico/page/n9/mode/2up
AUDIOBOOK: https://archive.org/details/abraham_lincoln_history_4_1701_librivox
VOL. 4. Fort Pickens reinforced -- The Sumter expedition -- The fall of Sumter -- The call to arms -- The national uprising -- Baltimore -- Washington in danger -- Rebellious Maryland -- Texas -- The Ohio Line -- Missouri -- Kentucky -- The Confederate Military League -- Civil War -- European neutrality -- McClellan and Grant -- Scott's Anaconda -- The advance -- West Virginia -- Bull Run -- Congress -- The contraband -- Fremont -- Military emancipation -- The Army of the Potomac --
---NOTES: 2 ADDITIONAL PAGES IN 1890 VERSION---
TEXT:[1890,558pp,A.Dixon] https://archive.org/details/abrahamlincoln2100nico/page/n9/mode/2up
AUDIOBOOK: https://archive.org/details/abraham_lincoln_history_5_1703_librivox
VOL. 5. Hatters and Port Royal -- The "Trent" affair -- The Tennessee Line -- East Tennessee -- Halleck -- Lincoln directs Cooperation -- Grant and Thomas in Kentucky -- Cameron and Stanton -- Plans of campaign -- Manassas evacuated -- Fort Donelson -- Compensated abolishment -- "Monitor" and "Merrimac" -- Roanoke Island -- Farragut's victory -- New Orleans -- Pea Ridge and Island No. 10 -- The Shiloh Campaign -- Halleck's Corinth Campaign -- Yorktown -- From Williamsburg to Fair Oaks -- Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign -- The Seven Days' Battles --Harrison's landing --
---NOTES: 2 ADDITIONAL PAGES IN 1890 VERSION---
TEXT:[1890,596pp,A.Dixon] https://archive.org/details/abrahamlincoln2101nico/page/n9/mode/2up
AUDIOBOOK: https://archive.org/details/abraham_lincoln_history_6_1707_librivox
VOL. 6. Pope's Virginia Campaign -- Mexico -- Diplomacy of 1862 -- Meditation declined -- Signs of the times -- Emancipation proposed and postponed -- Antietam -- Emancipation announced -- The removal of McClellan -- Fredericksburg -- Financial measures -- Seward and Chase -- Perryville and Murfreesboro -- West Virginia admitted -- Lincoln and the churches -- Military governors -- Colonization -- Missouri guerrillas and politics -- The Edict of freedom -- Negro soldiers -- Retaliation --
TEXT:[1890,546pp,A.Dixon] https://archive.org/details/abrahamlincoln07nico/page/n9/mode/2up
AUDIOBOOK: https://archive.org/details/abraham_lincoln_history_7_1710_librivox
VOL. 7. The enrollment and the draft -- The Lincoln-Seymour correspondence -- Du Pont before Charleston -- Chancellorsville -- Preludes to the Vicksburg Campaigns -- The Campaign of the Bayous -- Grant's May battles in Mississippi -- The invasion of Pennsylvania -- Gettysburg -- Vicksburg -- Port Hudson -- Vallandigham -- The defeat of the Peace Party at the polls -- Maximillian -- Fort Wagner -- Prisoners of war --
TEXT:[1890,574pp,A.Dixon] https://archive.org/details/abrahamlincolnh2103nico/page/n9/mode/2up
AUDIOBOOK: https://archive.org/details/abraham_lincoln_history_8_1712_librivox
VOL. 8. Conspiracies in the North -- Habeas Corpus -- The march to Chattanooga -- Chickamauga -- Chattanooga -- Burnside in Tennessee -- Lincoln's Gettysburg Address -- Missouri radicals and conservatives -- The line of the Rapidan -- Foreign relations in 1863 -- Olustee and the Red River -- The Pomeroy Circular -- Grant General-in-Chief -- The wilderness -- Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor -- Arkansas free -- Louisiana free -- Tennessee free -- Maryland free -- Missouri free --
TEXT:[1890,578pp,A.Dixon] https://archive.org/details/abrahamlinco2104nico/page/n9/mode/2up
AUDIOBOOK: https://archive.org/details/abraham_lincoln_a_history_9_1804_librivox
VOL. 9. Sherman's Campaign to the Chattahoochee -- The Cleveland Convention -- Lincoln renominated -- The resignation of Mr. Chase -- The Wade-Davis Manifesto -- The last days of the rebel navy -- Early's Campaign against Washington -- Horace Greeley's peace mission -- The Jaquess-Gilmore Mission -- Mobile Bay -- The Chicago surrender -- Atlanta -- Sheridan in the Shenandoah -- Cedar Creek -- Cabinet changes -- Lincoln reelected -- Chase as Chief-Justice -- Petersburg -- Reconstruction -- The March to the Sea --
TEXT:[1890,556pp,A.Dixon] https://archive.org/details/abrahamlincoln10nico/page/n9/mode/2up
AUDIOBOOK: https://archive.org/details/abraham_lincoln_history_10_1804_librivox
VOL. 10. Franklin and Nashville -- The Albemarle -- Fort Fisher and Wilmington -- The Thirteenth Amendment -- Blair's Mexican project -- The Hampton Roads Conference -- The Second Inaugural -- Five Forks -- Appomattox -- The fall of the rebel capital -- Lincoln in Richmond -- Johnston's surrender -- The capture of Jefferson Davis -- The fourteenth of April -- The fate of the assassins -- The mourning pageant -- The end of rebellion -- Lincoln's fame
1890 TEXTS that have Arthur Dixon 3131 Michigan Avenue may very well be this Chicago Alderman that died in 1917. He appears to have his own crest/seal that he has placed/stamped on the inside cover.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Dixon_(Chicago_alderman)
The volume three text link is the one from volume two.
I tried to find it myself but it's sleepy time.
Fixed it. ty for the check.
Bookmarked for later.
I wish I had the time to start reading it right now.
I recommend the audiobooks. You can probably download the mp3 files and listen to them offline at your convenience.