Papers, 1841-1865.

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Papers, 1841-1865.

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This collection relating to Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), 16th president of the United States, contains three original items and several facsimiles, photocopies, and typescript copies of Lincoln letters. The original items are: Lincoln's response to an autograph request, 1860; official ship's papers, 1864, signed by Lincoln and issued to John A. Castino ( - ) as commander of the Congress on a whaling voyage; and a letter written to Thomas H. Cary ( - ), 29 July 1859, concerning Cary's desire to run for election to Congress and Lincoln's opinion of his chances. Among the copies are facsimiles of the Gettysburg Address, 1863; a photocopy of a memorandum of Gustavus Adolphus Myers ( - ), a Virginia official, relative to a meeting with Lincoln, 5 April 1865, on a gunboat in the James River and concerning terms of Virginia's withdrawal from the war; a facsimile of the mortgage held by Lincoln on his parents' home, 1841; a letter of condolence written by the President to Mrs. Lydia Bixby ( - ) who was said to have lost five sons in the Civil War, 1864; and typescript copies of several letters from Lincoln to Gen. Nathaniel Prentiss Banks (1816-1894), 1863-1865, concerning political matters in Louisiana. There is also a commission signed by Lincoln, a note from Lincoln to Stephen Arnold Douglas (1813-1861) concerning the format of their Debates in 1858; and a letter written by Lincoln in 1861 concerning his stand on slavery.

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Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861

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Stephen Arnold Douglas (April 23, 1813 – June 3, 1861) was an American politician and lawyer from Illinois. He was one of two Democratic Party nominees for president in the 1860 presidential election, which was won by Abraham Lincoln. Douglas had previously defeated Lincoln in the 1858 United States Senate election in Illinois, known for the Lincoln–Douglas debates. During the 1850s, Douglas was one of the foremost advocates of popular sovereignty, which held that each territory should be allowe...

Banks, Nathaniel Prentice, 1816-1894

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Nathaniel Prentice (or Prentiss) Banks (January 30, 1816 – September 1, 1894) was an American politician from Massachusetts and a Union general during the Civil War. A millworker by background, Banks was prominent in local debating societies, and his oratorical skills were noted by the Democratic Party. However, his abolitionist views fitted him better for the nascent Republican Party, through which he became Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and Governor of Massachusetts ...

Cary, Thomas H.

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Myers, Gustavus Adolphus.

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Castino, John A.

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