Letter : Murfreesboro, Tenn., to [Joseph H.] Barrett, n.p., 1863 May 31.

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Letter : Murfreesboro, Tenn., to [Joseph H.] Barrett, n.p., 1863 May 31.

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Autograph letter signed. While stationed at Murfreesboro as Commissary of Musters, Mussey invites Barrett to visit him. He also expresses his desire to be involved in the organization of a "Negro Regiment."

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William E. Barton Collection of Lincolniana (University of Chicago)

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Barrett, Joseph H. (Joseph Hartwell), 1824-1910

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Joseph Hartwell Barrett (1824-1910), the political editor of the Cincinnati Gazette (1857-1861), Ohio representative to the 1860 Republican Convention, Commissioner of Pensions in the Lincoln and Johnson administrations (1861-1868), the editor of the Cincinnati Times and Chronicle (1868-1892), and Lincoln's biographer. In 1853, he married Harriet Whiting Lowell. From the description of Papers of Joseph H. Barrett, 1845-1910. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Garden...

Mussey, R. D. (Reuben Delevan), 1833-1892

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Reuben D. Mussey, a journalist, served in the regular army and as a recruiter of black troops during the Civil War. He was one of President Andrew Johnson's secretaries April-November 1865, and later became a Washington, D. C. lawyer. From the description of Letter, July 14, 1865. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 144570675 ...

Barton, William Eleazar, 1861-1930

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