Charles Keim collection of Ulysses S. Grant, 1858-1908 (bulk 1864-1868).

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Charles Keim collection of Ulysses S. Grant, 1858-1908 (bulk 1864-1868).

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This collection contains letters and one telegram, chiefly to Isaac N. Morris, lawyer and politician from Quincy, Illinois. Eight of the letters are from Ulysses S. Grant to Morris, who served as an informal adviser to Grant during the 1868 presidential campaign. Includes widely published campaign letter of September 14, 1868, from Grant to Morris, explaining Grant's 1862 General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from his military district. Also includes correspondence with Stephen A. Douglas, Richard Yates and an Abraham Lincoln Autographed Endorsement Signed, dated February 9, 1863, concerning Morris.

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Southern Illinois University, Morris Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7133280

Southern Illinois University, Morris Library

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Grant, Ulysses Simpson, 1822-1885

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Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant, April 27, 1822, Point Pleasant, Ohio-died July 23, 1885, Wilton, New York) was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877. As president, Grant was an effective civil rights executive who worked with the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction to protect African Americans, created the Justice Department, and reestablish the public credit. Promoted lieutenant-general, in 1864, Grant led the Union Army in winning the American Civ...

Yates, Richard, 1815-1873

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American lawyer and politician. From the description of Letter signed, with a line in his autograph : Springfield, Illinois, to President Lincoln, 1863 Feb. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270584462 Illinois governor, 1861-1865; member, Illinois House of Representatives, 1842-1846, 1849-1850; U.S. senator, 1865-1871. From the description of Letter : General Head Quarters, Springfield, State of Illinois, to John S. Bradford, 1861 April 17. (Abraham Lincoln Pres...

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...

Morris, Isaac N. (Isaac Newton), 1812-1879

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Isaac N. Morris was a member of Congress from Illinois. From the description of ALS, [18]78 March 15 : Washington, D.C. to Secretary of the Interior. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 52625579 ...

Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1850-1908

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