Record Group 94: Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1762 - 1984 Series: Letters Received, 1863 - 1917 File Unit: Document #140: Letter to Simon Cameron from Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 10, 1863 Item: 259 F CB 1863: Letter to Simon Cameron from Abraham Lincoln at the Executive Mansion Requesting tha

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Record Group 94: Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1762 - 1984 Series: Letters Received, 1863 - 1917 File Unit: Document #140: Letter to Simon Cameron from Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 10, 1863 Item: 259 F CB 1863: Letter to Simon Cameron from Abraham Lincoln at the Executive Mansion Requesting that Colonels J. W. Fisher and L. B. Pierce Both be Promoted to Brigadier General, 11/10/1863

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Fisher, Joseph Washington, 1814-1900

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Joseph W. Fisher was born in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, and was educated in the local schools. He studied law and passed his bar exam. Licensed as an attorney, he established a profitable legal practice serving the Northumberland County region. He served as a member of Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 1848 to 1849. When war broke out and the Pennsylvania Reserves were organized, Fisher became lieutenant colonel of the 5th Pennsylvania Reserves. He was promoted to the rank ...

Pierce, Lewis Burton, 1831-1876

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Pierce, Lewis B., Sept. 2, 1831 born at Le Raysville, Pa., son of Benjamin and Mehetable Brink Pierce; resident of Bradford County, Pa. married Elizabeth H. Black Pierce (1828 born-July 23, 1880 died); merchant and farmer; 1858-1861 auditor of public accounts for Bradford County; Nov. 7, 1861 or Feb. 17, 1862 enlisted in Bradford County as ltcol., 12th Pa. Cavalry Rgt. April 21 or 23, 1862 col. May-August 1862 commanded Post of Manassas, Va. April-June 1863 acting assistant inspector general on ...

Cameron, Simon, 1799-1889

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Simon Cameron was born in Maytown, Pennsylvania in 1799, to Charles Cameron (d. January 16, 1814) and his wife Martha McLaughlin (d. abt. November 10, 1830). Cameron was the third of five sons; and had three younger sisters. One story claimed that Cameron was orphaned at nine, and later apprenticed to a printer, Andrew Kennedy, editor of the Northumberland Gazette before entering the field of journalism. If Cameron were apprenticed to Kennedy at age nine (~1808) for a then-standard period of ...