Letters, 1864, 1865.

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Letters, 1864, 1865.

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Two letters to "Dod". Letter, Oct. 31 1864, 6 pages, recounts the events at a political rally. Scathing description of the followers of Clement Vallandigham and his speech. Also mentions content of speeches by Charles E. Lippincott, who served in the 33rd Illinois Infantry and later Illinois auditor of public accounts, Alonzo Swann and Leonard Ross, a copperhead and gives her opinions of their opinions. Letter, April 11, 1865, 4 pages, discusses Lee's surrender, what she thinks should be done to the Confederacy, and Canton's celebration of the surrender.

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Vallandigham, Clement Laird, 1820-1871

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Clement Laird Vallandigham was born July 29, 1820, in New Lisbon, Ohio (now Lisbon, Ohio), to Clement and Rebecca Laird Vallandigham. His father, a Presbyterian minister, educated his son at home. In 1841, Vallandigham had a dispute with the college president at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. He was honorably dismissed, but he never received a degree. Edwin M. Stanton, the future Secretary of War under President Lincoln, was Vallandigham's close friend before the Civil War....

Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870

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Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870) served as General of the Confederate Army in the U.S. Civil War and was president of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia from 1865 to 1870. Lee spent the first twenty-three years of his military career in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. From 1837 to 1841 he was superintending engineer for the harbor of St. Louis and the upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Robert E. Lee was a United States Army officer, 1829-1861; commander of Virginia forces in the ...

Plattenburg family.

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Plattenburg, Ellen.

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Canton, Illinois woman, who had two sons, Philip Dodson and Wilbur, serving in the Civil War. From the description of Letters, 1864, 1865. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 53882389 ...

Lippincott, Charles L. (Charles Lawrence)

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