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- GLC#
- GLC05603.01.03-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- circa April 6, 1865
- Author/Creator
- Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
- Title
- [to Mary Todd Lincoln]
- Place Written
- City Point, Virginia
- Pagination
- 3 p. : Height: 21 cm, Width: 14 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Last three pages of a longer letter. Recipient inferred based on content. Senator Sumner, en route with Mrs. Lincoln to City Point to meet up with the president, responds to her note regarding Lincoln's return to Washington in the wake of Secretary of State Seward's serious carriage accident. The First Lady wanted the president to wait at City Point for their arrival; Sumner strongly advises that they wait for the president. The carriage accident would end up, indirectly, saving Seward's life on the night of the Lincoln assassination.
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