Letters, May 10-July 17, 1930.

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Letters, May 10-July 17, 1930.

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Seven letters to Frank E. Stevens regarding Lincoln and the Black Hawk War. Discussing the route that Lincoln's company traveled and asking Stevenson's help in clarifying. Several references to Governor Emmerson and George Dixon, president of the Illinois Historical Society, and his mishandling of the "Commission". One letter from Charles G. Davis with notes on changes for Oakleaf's manuscript. Two letters to Stevens from Joseph L. Oakleaf after his father's death re: the manuscript.

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Oakleaf, Joseph Benjamin, 1858-1930

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Lawyer in Moline, Illinois who maintained collections of Abraham Lincoln and Illinois history material. In 1908 he received from his friend, William F. Carlson, in Chicago, two letters pertaining to the 32nd Illinois Infantry and its passage on the U.S.S. Winona from Savannah, Georgia to Beaufort, S.C. in January 1865. The letters had come into Mr. Carlson's possession from E.H. Sheffield, who had been quartermaster on the ship at that time. From the description of Papers, 1865, 1908...

Stevens, Frank Ellis, 1870-

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Dixon, George, 1881-1966.

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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...

Davis, Charles George

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