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- GLC#
- GLC05508.149-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 19 March 1912
- Author/Creator
- Johnson, D.C., fl. 1912
- Title
- to J. E. Boos, Esq.
- Place Written
- Clinton, Indiana
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 28 cm, Width: 22 cm
- Primary time period
- Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929
- Sub-Era
- Jim Crow and the Great Migration
Johnson discusses being raised in Illinois and enlisting in the army. On Lincoln, slavery and the Civil War, he writes: "No man has a higher opinion of Lincoln than I. He was the Good Lords [sic] instrument in destroying the greatest sin of this nation and his death was the last atonement for this National sin." Johnson was a member of the 25th Illinois Volunteer infantry, Company H.
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