28 April 1832

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: Special order No. 7: Brigade muskets during Black Hawk War

Lincoln's signature "A. Lincoln, Capt." on verso of receipt. Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincon. (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. I p. 9-10.

GLC01302

February 6, 1862

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document signed

Title: [Appointment of Ormsby M. Mitchel as Brigadier General of Volunteers]

Signed by Abraham Lincoln as president; countersigned by Edwin M. Stanton as Secretary of War, and endorsed by Lorenzo Thomas as Adjutant General on 7 February 1862. On verso, contains a note in pencil relating that this document was given to a previous owner by Mitchel's grandson., "Given to me by O. M. Mitchell, June 10 1903 grandson of within and to be returned to him if I die before he does." Blue seal on top left corner. Docketed in pink ink on top left corner.

GLC01821

2 June 1862

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Salmon Chase

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to send in the name of George W. Lane of Indiana as his choice for superintendent of the United States Mint at Denver, Colorado. Written on Executive Mansion stationery. According to Basler (5: 256), Chase opposed Lane's nomination, and Lincoln did not send it to Congress until January 1863. Lane's tenure at the Denver Mint marked the end of private coinage in the United States. Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. V 1861 -1862, p. 256

GLC01989

1863

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Header Record

Title: [Appointment of John G. Butler, Chief Coiner, Philadelphia (c/s Seward) and photograph] [Decimalized .01- .02]

Appointment of John G. Butler, Chief Coiner, Philadelphia (c/s Seward) and early photograph of coin counting room.

GLC01992

1863

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Pamphlet

Title: The letters of President Lincoln on questions of national policy.

Reprint of six letters by Lincoln: June 13, 1863, to an Albany, New York Committee, discussing his interpretation of the writ of habeas corpus in the Vallandigham case; February 3, 1862 and October 13, 1862, to General George McClellan on the management of the war; August 22, 1862, to Horace Greeley concerning amnesty for southerners; August 7, 1863, to New York mayor Horatio Seymour regarding the New York City draft riots and the constitutionality of the Conscription Act; August 26, 1863, to the Springfield, Illinois and Syracuse Conventions, defending the Emancipation Proclamation.…

GLC01969

September 9, 1842

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: Elections in Sangamon County, Illinois, for State Representatives...

Said to have been presented to his fiance Mary Todd, listing election results for 1832, 1834 and 1836. Lincoln has signed his name three times, once for each time he ran. Attested by clerk Noah W. Matheny, pages 2-3, with seal on p. 3. See Sandburg, Lincoln Collector, p. 141, and H. Pratt, Lincoln Day by Day, for 9/9/1842. Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. I 1824 - 1848, p. 297-299

GLC01978

13 June 1864

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: [Parole releasing prisoner of war Augustus Powell to his father's custody]

Releases Powell, a prisoner of war at Alton, Illinois to his father, John M. Powell. Written on Executive Mansion stationery. Pencil autograph endorsement signed by E.M. Stanton, Secretary of War, states this was referred to General Hitchcock (Ethan Allen Hitchcock, a Union general). Reads: "Allow John M. Powell, bearer of this, to have custody of his son, Augustus Powell, now prisoner of war at Alton, he John M. Powell, being responsible for the good behavior of the son, & for his return, if required. A. Lincoln."

GLC02054

15 May 1862

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: [Endorsement on Senate resolution to Secretary of War Stanton]

Lincoln endorsement as President to Edwin M. Stanton, requesting data, written on the verso of a Senate resolution dated 14 May requesting information concerning the arrest of persons in Kentucky since the 1st of September 1861 and their imprisonment outside the state. States "Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to communicate to the Senate, if in his opinion not incompatible with the public interest any information in his possession touching the arrest of persons in Kentucky ... and their imprisonment beyond the limits of that state." The resolution is signed by…

GLC02040

28 March 1861

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document signed

Title: [Authority to the Secretary of State to affix the seal of the United States to the pardon of William Edwards].

Very early authority, dated three weeks after Lincoln's inauguration.

GLC02317

17 August 1861

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph note signed

Title: to James Wolfe Ripley

Lincoln requests that Brigadier General Ripley, the chief of ordnance, have a gun presented by an unknown Mr. Gallagher examined and tested.

GLC02318

29 April 1864

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Gen. Henry Benham re: stay of execution for Priv. Grey & Cusick

Accompanied by a forged Lincoln AES dated 3/22/1865, ordering an unnamed person be allowed to take the oath of Dec. 8 (clipped from a letter).

GLC02371.01

6 November 1861

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph note signed

Title: to George McClellan

Lincoln asks General McClellan if he will have a brief meeting with some gentlemen. Clipped from a letter.

GLC02374

18 September 1862

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document signed

Title: [Presidential authority to the Secretary of State to affix the seal to the pardon of George W. Marples].

GLC02378

May 4, 1861

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph note signed

Title: to unknown

Lincoln writes a note on military forces. He recommends a division be admitted to the new corps of volunteers.

GLC01739

4 April 1863

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document signed

Title: [Promotion of Nathaniel C. McLean to Brigadier General of Volunteers]

Official document promoting McLean, signed by President Lincoln and countersigned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. Partially printed from an engraving, with blanks filled in by hand. This item was accompanied by maps. Includes blue seal on top left section.

GLC01740.01

May 2, 1864

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to California Delegation in Congress

Lincoln asks the delegation to take a case off his hands because he does not have time to get acquainted with it. The case referred to is not identified. Letter written on Executive Mansion stationary. One bust engraving of Lincoln included.

GLC01741

February 6, 1862

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document signed

Title: [Promotion of John A. Brannan to Brigadier General of Volunteers].

Countersigned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. Partially printed from an engraving, with blanks filled in by hand. Brannan had been a hero at Chickamauga (not mentioned on commission). Docketed at upper left by Lorenzo Thomas as Adjutant General. Blue seal on upper left corner.

GLC01770

5 June 1863

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document signed

Title: [Promotion of Thomas McGregor to Second Lieutenant in the First Regiment of Cavalry].

Countersigned by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. Partially printed from an engraving, with blanks filled in by hand. Docketed at upper left. McGregor was also known as a California "Argonaut" and Indian fighter. Pink seal on upper left corner.

GLC01771

January 14, 1865

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: [Abraham Lincoln endorsement]

Lincoln endorsement written on the fourth page of an autograph letter signed of P. Golden from Bangor, Maine to John H. Rice of Washington dated 29 December 1864. Golden asks that a cousin John Murphy, a prisoner of war, be discharged. Golden explains that Murphy was forced into Confederate service and tried to escape but did not succeed. He had to rejoin under another name in the 42nd Battalion of Virginia Cavalry, where he was taken prisoner. He is being held at Point Lookout in Maryland. Calls Murphy a "true Union man" and refers Rice to Vice President Hannibal Hamlin for further…

GLC01772

8 October 1861

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document signed

Title: [Authority to affix the seal to letter of marque to R. B. Forbes]

Authorization signed by President Lincoln for the Secretary of State to affix the Seal of the United States to a letter of marque granted to the propeller "Pembroke," owned by R.B. Forbes. Document was previously framed and discoloration has occured where the document was exposed to the sunlight.

GLC01484

December 28, 1861

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Montgomery Meigs

Lincoln is having Captain Asher R. Eddy relieved of duty as a Quarter Master in Springfield, Illinois because "a 'snarl' has somehow gotten up between him & [the State Government], which must be broken up." He asks Quartermaster General Meigs to replace Eddy and reassign him to an equally important post.

GLC01514

April 25, 1864

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph note signed

Title: to unknown

Discharging a boy volunteer upon the refund of bounty money.

GLC01630

January 12,1848

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Pamphlet

Title: [Speech on Declaration of War on Mexico in the House of Representatives]

Concerning the constitutionality and necessity of Polk's declaration of war with Mexico. Printed by J.& G.S. Gideon. See also GLC02025.

GLC01638

July 1, 1864

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph Holt

Lincoln writes to Judge Advocate General Holt concerning army contractor Daniel Wormer, who was paid but failed to deliver 1200 horses to the army. Lincoln asks Holt to get the record and report on it to him. Letter written on Executive Mansion stationary. Accompanied by a war-date carte de visite photograph of Lincoln (GLC01677.02).

GLC01677.01

December 27, 1862

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Caleb B. Smith and William P. Dole

Letter written on Executive Mansion stationery to "Sec. of Interior (Smith) and Comr. of Indian Affairs (Dole)." Says that Mr. DuPuy lost his job as an Indian Agent after being falsely accused. Acknowledges that he should be reinstated, but realizes the man now in his place also deserves to stay. Asks the recipients to decide this matter.

GLC01695