Letters, 1858-1869.

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Letters, 1858-1869.

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Letter, Sept. 1858, to Lyman Trumbull, regrets his ill health keeps him from the slavery fight and hopes to see Lincoln in the Senate. Letter, Aug. 1862, to Benjamin Wade, states he has urged the necessity of the Emancipation Proclamation. Letter, Jan. 1863, states he has forwarded the box, along with a blessing to Abraham Lincoln. Letter, 1864, re: political appointment. Letter, Aug. 1864, to Mrs. Child, re: value of the fugitive slave laws and his dissatisfaction at the early nomination of presidential candidate and the length of the war. Letter to Salmon Chase, April 13, 1865, re: Stanton's attitudes toward the South as indicated in an interview with Lincoln. Letter, 1866, refers to ill health related to injuries received in 1856. Letter to James Russell Lowell, April 1869, re: Luigi Monti, U.S. Consul at Palermo, Sicily.

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Monti, Luigi Maria, 1825-1900

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Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

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Massachusetts lawyer and U.S. Senator, 1851-1874. He was an ardent abolitionist who attacked the south in his "crime against Kansas" speech in 1856. Two days later he was assaulted in the Senate, receiving injuries that took him years to recover from. From the description of Letters, 1858-1869. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55768315 Born in Boston, Mass., the U.S. statesman Charles Sumner studied law at Harvard and practiced law in his native ci...

Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 1814-1869

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American jurist and politician. From the description of Letter signed : "War Department," to William Pitt Fessenden, 1862 May 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270580939 U.S. secretary of war 1862-1868. From the description of Telegram (draft) : ms. : Washington, D.C., to Ulysses S. Grant, Appomattox C.H., Va., 1865 Apr. 9. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122380613 Secretary of War; Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. ...

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...