Letters, October 18 and December 9, 1863.

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Letters, October 18 and December 9, 1863.

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Two letters to Ellen Eaton, evidently a school teacher, describe military activities around Memphis, Tennessee where Bridge was posted. Mentions support for the ideas of Clement L. Vallandigham. Also small leather notebook with financial calculations.

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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....

Bridge, E. T. (Edmund T.), 1837-1900.

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An Augusta, Hancock County, Illinois farmer, Edmund T. Bridge was mustered into Company K, 119th Illinois Infantry as a private on October 7, 1862 and mustered out on August 26, 1865. War disabilities caused him to receive an invalid pension in 1870 and in 1900 he was living in the Soldiers and Sailors Home in Quincy, Illinois. From the description of Letters, October 18 and December 9, 1863. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 70891340 ...

United States. Army. Illinois Infantry, 119th (1863) Company K.

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Eaton, Ellen, b. ca. 1842.

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