Collection, 1862-1866.

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Collection, 1862-1866.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63148366

The collection consists of letters and documents written in Indiana during the 1860s. The collection is in chronological order. They include: a letter from a man in Valparaiso concening a lecture position, a letter from Middletown, Indiana concerning local men raising money for arms and ammunitions, two letters concerning a violent uprising in Evansville, one of these from Oliver P. Morton, another letter from Morton to President Andrew Johnson on a legislative matter, a printed protest to Johnson written by John Hogarth Lozier and signed by Indiana citizens regarding the pardons of Jefferson Davis and other rebel leaders, and a bank draft.

7 folders.

Indiana Historical Society Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7883699

Indiana Historical Society Library

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Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

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Andrew Johnson (b. December 29, 1808, Raleigh, North Carolina-d. July 31, 1875, Carter's Station, Tennessee) became the seventeenth president of the United States after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1808. He began his political career in Greenville, Tennessee in 1828. At the time of this letter he was the Democratic senator from Tennessee. Emerson Etheridge was born in Carrituck County, North Carolina. As a representative of Tennes...

Morton, Oliver P. (Oliver Perry), 1823-1877

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Indiana lawyer, judge, and Republican politician. Morton served as the state's lieutenant governor in 1861, and as governor from 1861 to 1867. In 1867 he was elected to the U.S. Senate, and served there until his death. From the description of Oliver P. Morton papers, 1861-1876. (Indiana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 27970020 14th Governor of Indiana, 1861-1867; United States Senator from Indiana, 1867-1877. From the description of Autographs o...

Reimer, Thomas E.

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Governor Oliver P. Morton was Indiana's governor during the Civil War. Throughout the war he mobilized the war effort in Indiana. In order to maintain massive armies during the Civil War a national draft was instituted. Uprisings in Evansville, Indiana protesting the draft were the strongest in the state during that time. After the war Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, was indicted for treason. In December 1868 he was included in the general amnesty of the South. From th...

Lozier, John Hogarth

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