CHAPTER VIII.

James Rutledge.--His family.--Ann Rutledge.--John McNeil.--Is engaged to Ann.--His strange story.--The loveliness of Ann's person and character.--Mr. Lincoln courts her.--They are engaged to be married.--Await the return of McNeil.--Ann dies of a broken heart.--Mr. Lincoln goes crazy.--Cared for by Bowlin Greene.--The poem "Immortality."--Mr. Lincoln's melancholy broodings.--Interviews with Isaac Cogdale after his election to the Presidency.--Mr. Herndon's interview with McNamar.--Ann's grave.--The Concord cemetery...159