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1910
Lincoln Said Women Should Vote
Washington woman suffrage poster, featuring Abraham Lincoln's quote, "I go for all sharing the priviledges of government who assist in bearing its burdens, by no means excluding women."
GLC09103
24 March 1914
Williams, Charles T. (fl. 1842-1914)
to J. E. Boos
Certifies that he served in the Union Army (in the 1st New Jersey Infantry and the 1st New Jersey Cavalry) for three years and nine months during the Civil War. During that time he was a prisoner of war for eighteen months, twelve of those at...
GLC00272.01
19 March 1912
Johnson, D.C. (fl. 1912)
to J. E. Boos, Esq.
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...
GLC05508.149
1911
Welles, Gideon (1802-1878)
Diary of Gideon Welles
Three volume diary of Gideon Welles, with an autograph letter signed from Welles to Andrew Boyd pasted to front of first volume. The diary recounts Welles' tenure as the Secretary of the Navy. Each volume contains several illustrations of...
GLC00584
23 June 1915
Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)
to Oscar King Davis
"I am pretty well disgusted with our government ... in a democracy like ours people will always do well or ill largely in proportion to their leadership. If Lincoln had acted after the firing on Fort Sumter in the way that Wilson did about the...
GLC08003
23 April 1926
Lincoln, Robert T. (1843-1926)
to C.W. Goff
Declines an invitation to speak at a Memorial Day service in South Manchester, Connecticut because of ill health. Addressed to Goff as Chairman, Memorial Day Committee, South Manchester.
GLC02490.11
1903
Stevens, Frank E. (b.1856)
The Black Hawk War, including a preview of Black Hawk's life
Signed and published by Frank E. Stevens, 1205 Chamber of Commerce Building. Discusses the events of the 1832 Black Hawk War in which Sac and Fox tribes, under the leadership of Black Hawk, fought against United States army and militia troops in...
GLC03168
22 September 1915
Smith, Francis M. (1842-1917)
to John E. Boos
States he has not replied until now because of a serious illness. Has attached his signature to a statement for the National Tribune giving his impressions of April 2, 1865, a day Abraham Lincoln came to visit City Point hospital and so impressed a...
GLC05603.01.17
10 February 1909
Mosby, John S. (1833-1916)
to Sam Chapman
article about Lincoln in Cosmopolitan: "It is the best thing I have seen about Lincoln & confirms what I wrote you that Lincoln offered to the South compensation of their slaves when the Confederacy was in its last gasp & even then we rejected it."
GLC03921.25
25 February 1909
to Alexander Spottswood Campbell
Spottswood was possibly Mosby's grandson (son of daughter May Virginia Campbell and Robert Campbell). Typed on Department of Justice stationery with the printed heading, "Carbon copy for the file". Transmits a clipping from the Times-Dispatch on an...
GLC05738
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