Correspondence, 1862-1867.

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Correspondence, 1862-1867.

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Letters to Woods from Andrew McFarland, Gov. Richard Yates (4), Melvin Jameson, Sen. Henry Wilson, and Representative Shelby M. Cullom (2). Most pertain to Woods's duties with the state sanitary commission and his reports. The Cullom letters concern pensions.

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Wilson, Henry, 1812-1875

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Henry Wilson (born Jeremiah Jones Colbath; February 16, 1812 – November 22, 1875) was the 18th vice president of the United States (1873–75) and a senator from Massachusetts (1855–73). Before and during the American Civil War, he was a leading Republican, and a strong opponent of slavery. Wilson devoted his energies to the destruction of the "Slave Power" – the faction of slave owners and their political allies which anti-slavery Americans saw as dominating the country. Originally a Whig, Wil...

McFarland, Andrew, 1817-1891

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Physician and superintendent of the Illinois Hospital for the Insane from 1854 -1870. He testified in the case of Robert C. Sloo, who in 1856 was accused of killing John E. Hall, the county clerk of Williamson County and a political enemy of his father. Sloo was acquitted on the grounds of emotional insanity and this caused outrage around the state. From the description of Letter, Aug. 11, 1857. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 52576674 ...

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...

Cullom, Shelby M. (Shelby Moore), 1829-1914

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Springfield (Sangamon Co.), Ill. republican politician. From the description of Papers, 1910. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 38386302 U.S. senator and representative from and governor of Illinois. From the description of Shelby M. Cullom correspondence, 1894. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984527 Governor of Illinois, 1877-1883, and U.S. Senator, 1883-1913. From the description of Autograph. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Lib...

Jameson, Melvin, 1836-1922.

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Illinois. State Sanitary Commission

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Woods, John R., fl. 1867.

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Woods was the recording secretary of the Illinois State Sanitary Commission during the Civil War and published several reports about the commission's work. After the war he was an agent for soldiers' pension claims. From the description of Correspondence, 1862-1867. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 458603491 From the description of Letter, March 21, 1864. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 301351850 ...