Lincoln's secret journey to Washington in 1861 : manuscript, 1862-1867.

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Lincoln's secret journey to Washington in 1861 : manuscript, 1862-1867.

Handwritten manuscript recounting the whole story. Also includes an account by Benson J. Lossing, of a trip to Washington in 1864, where he met with President Lincoln and they discussed this trip. Letters of Felton to Lossing and from John A. Kennedy, of the Baltimore Metropolitan Police, discussing trip.

1 v. ; 33 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7597540

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891

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Historian, author. From the description of Transcriptions of documents, n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122583022 Wood engraver, author, editor. From the description of Benson J. Lossing papers, 1861-1891. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 51576931 From the description of Papers, 1861-1891. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155519295 Benson John Lossing, editor, illustrator, and historian born in New York. Edited the Poughkeepsie Telegraph, Poughk...

Felton, S. M. (Samuel Morse), 1809-1889

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Civil engineer of Boston, Mass., and railroad executive. Graduated from Harvard (1834). Engineer for Loammi Baldwin, Jr. and took over his business after Baldwin's death in 1838. Superintendent of construction, Fitchburg Railroad (1843). Later served as president of Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad (1851-1864). From the description of Business records, 1828-1851 (inclusive). (Harvard Business School). WorldCat record id: 269599364 President of the Philadelphia...

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...

Pinkerton, Allan, 1819-1884

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Kennedy, John A., 1803-1873

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