Papers 1860-1871.

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Papers 1860-1871.

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Army Officer, Artillery and Ordnance. Papers include cadet letters to his mother, Julia Amelia Walker Maclay, cadet letters to his father, Archibald Maclay, letter to his brother Billy requesting chewing tobacco; letter to his uncle; an official letter to Captain E.C. Boynton requesting leave to visit his parents in New York City; letters from Julia Amelia Walker Maclay, 1864-1868; letters to his mother, written from Springfield Arsenal in 1868; letter to his daughter Laura Maclay; letter from his brother; photocopy of a letter from his mother dated April 22, 1865 discussing Isaac Maclay's part in assisting the dying president at Ford's Theater and guarding Secretary of War Stanton.

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Maclay, Julia A.W.

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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...

Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 1814-1869

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American jurist and politician. From the description of Letter signed : "War Department," to William Pitt Fessenden, 1862 May 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270580939 U.S. secretary of war 1862-1868. From the description of Telegram (draft) : ms. : Washington, D.C., to Ulysses S. Grant, Appomattox C.H., Va., 1865 Apr. 9. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122380613 Secretary of War; Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. ...

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Boynton, Edward C. (Edward Carlisle), 1824-1893

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Maclay, I. W. (Isaac Walker), 1841-1908.

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