[to Mary Todd Lincoln]

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 [to Mary Todd Lincoln]

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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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