Correspondence between Virgil Hickox and Illinois Senator Stephen Arnold Douglas regarding the Democratic Party [Decimalized .01-.04]

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GLC#
GLC05621
Type
Header Record
Date
1861-1863
Title
Correspondence between Virgil Hickox and Illinois Senator Stephen Arnold Douglas regarding the Democratic Party [Decimalized .01-.04]
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
4 items
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War
Cutts, Madison, fl. 1863
Douglas, Stephen Arnold, 1813-1861
Hickox, Virgil, 1806-1881
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Democratic Party
Government and Civics
Patriotism
Civil War
Military History
Politics

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Collection Item
Letter signed

to Stephen Arnold Douglas

4 May 1861

Hickox, Virgil, 1806-1881

Hickox, Chairman of the Democratic State Committee, discusses President Abraham Lincoln's call for volunteers to suppress "revolutionary combinations opposing the laws of the Union." Encourages Douglas, a Democratic United States Senator from...

GLC05621.01
Collection Item
Letter signed

to Virgil Hickox

10 May 1861

Douglas, Stephen Arnold, 1813-1861

Douglas, serving as a Democratic United States Senator from Illinois, responds to a letter from Hickox, Chairman of the Democratic State Committee (refer to GLC05621.01). States " ... war is being waged against the United States with the avowed...

GLC05621.02
Collection Item
Letter signed

to Stephen Arnold Douglas

21 May 1861

Hickox, Virgil, 1806-1881

Hickox, Chairman of the Democratic State Committee, replies to a letter from Douglas, a Democratic United States Senator from Illinois (refer to GLC05621.02). Discusses the publication of Douglas' letter, which described political proceedings and...

GLC05621.03
Collection Item
Letter signed

to Stephen Arnold Douglas

14 April 1863

Cutts, Madison, fl. 1863

Cutts transmits copies of correspondence (not included) written by Douglas, a Democratic United States Senator from Illinois, regarding the political proceedings at the beginning of the Civil War. Cutts (possibly responsible for publishing the...

GLC05621.04