Copy of Joseph Benson Foraker letter to Archibald Gracie, 1911.

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Copy of Joseph Benson Foraker letter to Archibald Gracie, 1911.

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Typescript copy of a letter from J.B. Foraker to Archibald Gracie, dated Cincinnati, Ohio, December 23, 1911, with the added title, "Senator J.B. Foraker's tribute to 'THE TRUTH ABOUT CHICKAMAUGA.'" Pencilled mss note above the body of the letter reads "This paper was in my pocket on the fateful night when I went down on the Titanic. Archibald Gracie, April 24, 1912."

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New-York Historical Society Library

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Gracie, Archibald, 1858-1912

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Archibald Gracie III, 1858-1912, was the son of Brig. General Archibald Gracie, Jr., CSA. The Gracies were a prominent New York family and the owners of the Gracie Mansion in New York City. Gen. Gracie graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1854 but resigned from the army after a few years. In the late 1850s Gen. Gracie moved his family to Mobile, Ala., where he was involved in the cotton trade. He was captain of the Washington Light Infantry and captured the federal a...

Foraker, Joseph Benson, 1846-1917

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Ohio lawyer and jurist; Ohio governor, 1886-1890; U.S. senator, 1896-1908; brevet captain, 89th Ohio Infantry, Company A, during Civil War. From the description of Letter : Cincinnati, [Ohio], to B[enjamin] H[enry] Grierson, Whipple Barracks, A.T., 1885 Nov. 4. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 30607647 Joseph Benson Foraker served as both governor of and U.S. senator for the state of Ohio. Archibald Gracie was the author of a Civil War history enti...