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Fort Sumter, 400¬401, 475 Gar‚eld, James A., 760
Fort Wilborn, 520, 554 Gath. See Townsend, George Alfred (Gath)
Fowler, Sen., 617 Gentry, Allen: AL's ‚atboat trip with, 47, 94,
Fox, Charles James, 405 114, 131; death of, 116; mentioned, 749
Francis, Eliza R. (Mrs. Simeon): biographical sketch of, 749; letter from, 624; helped rec‚oncile AL and MTL, 623; refused to discuss AL and MTL, 624, 645¬46, 650; men‚tioned, 773
Francis, Josiah, 239 Francis, Newton, 470, 576 Francis, Simeon: editor of Sangamo Journal,
59, 430; refused AL's article, 430; fostered
secret meetings of AL and MTL, 444; men
‚tioned, 431, 645n, 749
Franciscus, G. C.: Pinkerton arranged special train with, 283, 322; Pennsylvania Railroad superintendent, 283n; mentioned, 289,
żFreedmen at Port Royal, Theî (Pierce), 685 Freeport debate, 723 Free Soil Party: of Massachusetts, 688, 691;
and Whigs, 689; mentioned, 681, 777
Fr˙mont, John C.: in 1864 campaign, 164; emancipation proposals of, 507; commis‚sion on claims, 627; presidential campaign of, 657
Friend, Charles (Dennis Hanks's father), 674, 781; candidate for AL's father, 673, 674, 675; mentioned, 672, 673n
Friend, Charles (Dennis Hanks's nephew): biographical sketch of, 749; letters from, 177¬78, 209, 219, 234¬35, 672¬76; AL anecdotes, 234¬35
Friend, Isaac: in love with Nancy Hanks, 674; brother of Charles Friend (Dennis Hanks's father), 674
Friend, Jesse, 781; married Mary (Polly) Hanks, 219, 221, 675; said to have married Elizabeth (Betsey) Hanks, 674; mentioned, 726n
Friend, Mary (Polly) Hanks, 781; said to have married Thomas Sparrow, 674; married Jesse Friend, 675; mentioned, 726
Friend family, 676
Gaines, Edmund P., 33 Galaher, B. A., 558 Galena Jeffersonian, 767 Games. See Sports and games Gardner, Henry J.: recollections of AL in Mas‚
sachusetts, 697, 698¬99
Gentry, Anna Caroline Roby: biographical sketch of, 749; interview with, 131¬32; mentioned, 330
Gentry, James: owned AL family's Indiana farm, 79, 116; founded Gentryville, 217; mentioned, 768
George Balcombe (Tucker), 171, 179, 513 George Morre v. Christina Moore and the Heirs
of Peter Moore: AL's role in, 333 Gettysburg Address, 360, 419, 499, 678 Gibbon, Edward: The Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire, 21 Gil Blas (Le Sage), 513, 514 Gill, James: AL's early client, 595 Gill, Richard. See Gill, James Gill, Ruth A. See Ruth A. Gill v. Jonathan Gill Gillespie, Joseph: biographical sketch of, 749;
letters from, 180¬88, 344¬45, 505¬9; AL ambitious but not aspiring, 181; AL's com‚plaint against Douglas, 181; AL's lack of cu‚pidity, 181; AL's skill as storyteller, 182; AL's faith in people, 182; in 1855 senatorial race, 182¬83, 344¬45, 347, 467, 538; AL's hatred of slavery, 183, 507; AL's cast of mind, 184, 505¬9; AL compared to Doug‚las, 184¬85; jumping-out-window incident, 187¬88; AL's fatalism, 506; AL's love of and capacity for analysis, 506¬7; AL's sense of fairness, 507; AL radical as to ends but con‚servative as to means, 507; AL's strategy for emancipation, 507; AL as humorist and storyteller, 508; AL cultivated clarity, 508; AL an old-line Whig, 508; AL's dislike of the American (Know Nothing) Party, 508, 705; AL believed history unreliable, 509; AL's love for, 705; mentioned, 161
Gilman, Alfred, 687, 692 Girty, Simon: allegedly killed by Mordecai
Lincoln, 220 Gitt, W. W.: letter from, 233¬34 Glasscock, George W., 162 Glen, [?]: AL approved saying of, 602 Godbey, Russell: biographical sketch of, 750;
interviews with, 449, 450; letter from, 624; AL surveyed land for, 449, 624; sold hogs, 457; AL and Ann Rutledge, 604
Gollaher, Austin: AL's Kentucky boyhood friend, 235, 676
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