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to Henry Knox

Lieutenant Colonel Mason relates intelligence from a private in the General's Guard named Lara Fraga, who claims several men in Captain Alexander Hamilton's company have enlisted in the "minesterall troops," meaning the Ministerial or British army....

GLC02437.00344

to Alice

He mentions other cousins like James and Mary. later he laments the death of president Lincoln. He refers to a Louis Wilson who chose to fight on the other side,

GLC02171.05

[Seated portrait of John H. Surratt]

One portrait of John Harrison Surratt, Jr., taken by Mathew Brady in 1868.

GLC02194

to George F. Morse

assisting Morse to obtain a transfer to Fort Federal Hill, Morse's reticence to work on the Sabbath, the death of a soldier from typhoid, and the necessity of retaining his religious life in camp.

GLC02180.13

to father

report of battle and retreat, loss of knapsack and clothes, assassination of President Lincoln, and an accounting of the wounded and the dead.

GLC02180.26

The Chisolm Massacre: A Picture of "Home Rule" in Mississippi

The Chisolm Massacre: A Picture of "Home Rule" in Mississippi. 2nd edition, published by the Chisolm Monument Association. In 1877, Judge Chisolm was accused of assassinating a Democratic political opponent. He, his son and daughter and two friends...

GLC09304

[Diary of private in 50th Penn. Infantry]

Diary of private in 50th Pennsylvania Infantry, with entries from Sept. 1864 through June 1865, encompassing the close of the war: "Today the election took place for President of the United States everything moved off quietly majority for Lincoln in...

GLC09320

to unknown re: Lincoln's assassination and tracking Booth

"I liked Mr. Lincoln much and I look upon his assassination with horror and indignation. I followed the assassin 4 days, and had I come across him I would have shot him like a dog."

GLC07206

to Kittie

A personal letter to his cousin in the Brookfield township region of upstate New York. Describes an attack on President Andrew Johnson in Indianapolis on or about 10 September 1866, and a subsequent melee. "The president... retired in disgust. As...

GLC07323

[Signed carte de visite of Ulysses S. Grant]

Signed photograph of Grant as Lt. General, taken by Frederick Gutekunst. Standing portrait of General Grant with his left hand in his vest, taken in the spring of 1865. Grant is wearing a black mourning band on his left arm in remembrance of Abraham...

GLC07338

[Crowd in front of Lincoln's Springfield home after funeral]

Image of Lincoln's funeral train and Springfield townspeople posed in front of the late President's home, following his burial at Oak Ridge Cemetery on May 4. The home is draped in mourning and decorated with evergreens. Some members of the crowd are...

GLC07418

Our Fallen Heroes [Woodcut print]

Large sheet consisting of colored woodcuts, intended for hanging, depicting Lincoln and deceased Union officers Elmer Ellsworth, E.D. Baker, J. McCook, Mitchill, Andrew H. Foote, J. Sedgwick, Lyon, Mansfield, Kearney, J.F. Reynolds, McPherson and...

GLC07456

[Lithograph of Abraham Lincoln]

Oval lithograph of a portrait of Lincoln. Printed at bottom, "Late President of the U.S. assassinated April 14, 1865."

GLC08879.01.09

Illinois State Journal + Lincoln collateral (engravings, photos, etc.)

Includes oval print (mezzotint?) of Lincoln published by J.W. Whatley, London; two oval lithographs of Lincoln from Bufford's Print Publishing House, Boston; a keepsake of the Lincoln Memorial compliments of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (n.d.); a...

GLC08879.02

Pinkerton and the Baltimore Scare

GLC08880.031

The Lincoln Conspiracy Trial

GLC08880.033

The Shot that Missed Lincoln

GLC08880.070

The Story of the Assasination

GLC08880.111

Schyylkill County and Some of its People When Abraham Lincoln Was Assassinated

GLC08880.145

to the Committee and Members of New York City Chamber of Commerce

Discusses his recuperation after an assassination attempt, thanking them for resolutions passed on his behalf: " ... There are no words in which I could adequately express the sense, I entertain, of the kindness, which has been shown to me by my...

GLC09021

Arrival of the Remains At Desbrosses Street Ferry

While black and white, has some yellow shading. Shows arrival of the remains of Abraham Lincoln at the Jersey City Ferry.

GLC09118.01

Dome of the City Hall--Scene at Midnight

GLC09118.02

Funeral Car Crossing Hudson River

Black and white with yellow shading.

GLC09118.07

View of the City Hall

Black and white with yellow shading.

GLC09118.08

Procession Passing Fifth Avenue Hotel

Black and white with yellow shading. Depicts Lincoln funeral procession.

GLC09118.09