19 March 1912
Johnson, D.C., fl. 1912
Autograph letter signed
Title: 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 nation and his death was the last atonement for this National sin." Johnson was a member of the 25th Illinois Volunteer infantry, Company H.
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