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to Edwin M. Stanton
June 4, 1863
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
One letter from Abraham Lincoln to Edwin M. Stanton dated June 4, 1863. Regarding suspending the publication of the anti-war Chicago Times.
GLC00001
to Nahum Capen
February 24, 1862
Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869
Less than a month after being appointed Secretary of War, Stanton makes a thinly-veiled attack on Lincoln's economic policies. Excerpt: "No public man, in times like these, can fail to have both his words and acts misunderstood & any one is...
GLC00008
to Alexander Sankey Latty
March 3, 1864
Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873
Chase, Secretary of the United States Treasury, discusses Judge Latty's recommendation of Mr. Huyck "for a commission in the colored regiment." States he will refer the recommendation to Edwin McMasters Stanton, Secretary of War. Predicts that Huyck...
GLC00197
[Presidential note and photograph] [Decimalized .01-.02]
01 July 1862
GLC00206
Presidential note to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton
July 1, 1862
Note from Abraham Lincoln asking that Charles F. Johnson be given parole in Cleveland. Johnson is unidentified, but presumably from Senator Lazarus W. Powell's state, Kentucky. Accompanied by photograph (GLC00206.02) of Lincoln and Tad, reading (with...
GLC00206.01
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