November 1863, 1910 ca.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Photograph

Title: Portrait of Abraham Lincoln by Alexander Gardner [later print] [O-77 detail]

Detail of Alexander Gardner's famous November 8, 1863 portrait, reprinted about 1910 by Jason Rice. Ostendorf O-77 Head detail (p. 145). Labelled "no. 36." Accompanied by a photograph of Jason Rice's attestation of authenticity (in collateral file).

GLC00245

February 1864

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite bust portrait (from a lithograph) published by Pine & Bell

Variant of O-92, lithograph based on Anthony Berger photograph taken at Brady studio 2/64, per Ostendorf p. 179.

GLC00242.12

February 1864

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Photograph

Title: President Lincoln, Master Thad. [sic] Lincoln [carte de visite]

Lincoln and Tad reading a book. O-93 with slightly more loss of lower portion of chair, based on Anthony Berger photograph taken at Brady studio 2/64, per Ostendorf p. 268.

GLC00242.13

1865

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Photograph

Title: Half length portrait by C. D. Fredericks [carte de visite]

Carte de visite variant of O-55. (Ostendorf suggests three possible photographers for this image, including Fredericks.)

GLC00242.14

September 1862 ca.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Photograph

Title: President Lincoln and Gen. McClellan in McClellan's tent [Antietam] [stereocard]

From Photographic History series no. 602. M-104.

GLC00242.16

circa 1865

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite portrait of Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln, and Tad from lithograph

GLC00241.03

January 13, 1864

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edward Bates

Request to Attorney General Edward Bates for him to have made and sent to him a pardon for Benjamin C. Robertson of Dickson County, Tennessee.

GLC00482

August 17, 1863

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Frederic P. Stanton

Follow-up letter discussing the addition of evidence in a Court of Inquiry case. Written on War Department letterhead.

GLC00496.044

1860

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Pamphlet

Title: The address of the Hon. Abraham Lincoln [Cooper Institute address]

Disbound. First edition but third printing of remarks. Annotated by Cephas Brainerd and Charles C. Nott. Not in Sabin but related to B41160. Known as the Cooper Union (Cooper Institute) address. This speech in New York was instrumental in Lincoln's election to the Presidency in 1860. Similar to Monaghan #68.

GLC00533

November 24, 1862

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Major John J. Key

Lincoln quotes the testimony against Key and assures him the dismissal was not personal but for the good of the service. Lincoln also expresses sympathy for the death of Key's son in battle.

GLC00496.045.01

30 April 1864

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document signed

Title: [Appointment of Edward M. McCook to Brigadier General of Volunteers]

Countersigned by Secretary of State Edwin M. Stanton. Docketed and signed at top by Assistant Adjutant General E.D. Townsend. McCook, who had been a member of the Kansas territorial House of Representatives, went on to become U.S. Minister to Hawaii and Governor of the Colorado Territory. Includes blue seal.

GLC00496.047

December 27, 1862

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph note signed

Title: to Major John J. Key

A short note that reads, "The within, as appears, was written some time ago. On full consideration, I can not find sufficient ground to change the conclusion therein arrived at./A. Lincoln/Dec. 27. 1862.” Probably written in the Executive Mansion. This note was written on a partial sheet as one edge of the paper is rough.

GLC00496.045.02

January 7, 1860

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Ward H. Lamon

Abraham Lincoln refuses Lamon's request for him to take on a new case at Bloomington, because he is "so pressed" in Springfield at the time.

GLC00496.048

May 1865 ca.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Photograph

Title: Embossed patriotic portrait of Abraham & Mary Lincoln by Alden [carte de visite]

Probably post-assassination portrait of the Lincolns, trimmed to ovals and enclosed in embossed frames surmounted by two flags and an eagle, and the great seal of the U.S. underneath. Photograph and art work by A. E. Alden.

GLC00559.15

March 31, 1862

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edwin L. Baker

Acknowledges receipt of his note delivered by Edwin's brother John. Refuses to let "Joe" [Joseph Baker] transfer to a higher position within the army and resign his present post because of the precedent it might set among the servicemen. "The objection is the setting of examples by which every body in all arms of the service, are set to studying whether they can not squirm round into a position more satisfactory to themselves. A rule, to cut off this, is a necessity." Written on Executive Mansion stationery. The envelope is free franked in Lincoln's hand.

GLC00622

May 16, 1861

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Charles H. Russell

The letter is regarding raising 14 regiments and reinforcing Ft. Monroe. Marked "Private."

GLC00635

March 29, 1863

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edwin M. Stanton

The letter discusses false reports of the Siege of Vicksburg. "I fear --in fact, I believe--the dispatch you mentioned is utter humbuggery...."

GLC00639.20

January 15,1862

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document signed

Title: [Presidential pardon of William L. King Jr., charged with arson, who had been admitted to bail in D.C. in March 1861, and who had failed to appear].

William L. King Jr was pardoned by Abraham Lincoln because he currently was "in military service of the United States in a distant part of the country and cannot be produced," because enforcement of the bond would impoverish his aged parents, and because this had been petitioned by citizens. Countersigned by Secretary of State William H. Seward.

GLC00589

February 6, 1865

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James B. Fry

Note to Provost Marshall Fry about verifying New York draft quota. Includes Lincoln's endorsement later that day recording a conversation with Fry that it cannot be done. Signed twice by Lincoln. Written on Executive Mansion letterhead.

GLC00596

May 12, 1863

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph note signed

Title: to Edwin McMasters Stanton

On a small card, President Lincoln requests that Stanton, Secretary of War, "see Mr. Dole & others, about the first colored regiment. Please do the best for them you can." Location inferred from outside sources.

GLC00602

29 March 1861

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document signed

Title: [Authorization to the Secretary of State to affix the seal of the United States to the pardon of Milo Thornton for counterfeiting coins].

In Ohio, Thornton had been convicted in 1859 and sentenced to the Ohio State Penitentiary for ten years. According to D. R. Kinsell, his physician, his health was quickly failing and he would soon become a lunatic if not released. The release was supported by Ohio representative John Hutchins, Marshall of the United States for the Northern District of Ohio Mathew Johnson, R. P. Rammey (the district attorney who had prosecuted him), and others.

GLC00613

July 27, 1855

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Anson L. Brewer

Abraham Lincoln writes to fellow attorney Brewer about the status of James Kelly v. Jesse D. Blackledge in the Logan County Circuit Court. He describes how the judge delayed the suit by taking the case under advisement. He questions the trial, "if it could be called a trial," and is astounded by the judge's eventual ruling against him. At the time this letter was written Lincoln and his partner Herdon were appealing the ruling, and they later won.

GLC00606

04 June 1862

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: to William A. Hammond

Asks United States Surgeon General William A. Hammond to address grievances of Mrs. Bradley, a nurse at Fort Monroe, Virginia. Written on recto is a letter by S. H. Sweetland to General John Ellis Wool, with note by Lieutenant Colonel D. Whipple, Chief of Staff at Ft. Monroe, dated 30 May 1862. Mrs. Bradley is possibly the Amy C. Bradley described in "Women's Work in the Civil War" (Philadelphia, 1867). Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln, (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. V 1861 - 1862, p. 259

GLC00547

January 11, 1865

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: [Note allowing John Swisher to take the oath of 8 December 1863]

Lincoln autograph endorsement signed on a letter from Edward McPherson to President Lincoln requesting clemency for a man, dated 10 January 1865. Lincoln's endorsement reads, "Let this man, John Swisher take the oath of Dec. 8, 1863 & be discharged." McPherson was Clerk of the House of Representatives.

GLC00693.03

1 October 1861

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Printed document

Title: [Leaflet encouraging women to contribute their patriotic efforts to the Civil War as members of the United States Sanitary Commission]

Includes a statement issued by Frederick Law Olmstead, Secretary of the Commission, encouraging patriotic donations. Contains a letter from Lincoln stating that "The Sanitary Commission is doing a work of great humanity." Includes a statement issued by directors of the Commission (including Commission President Henry W. Bellows) to the women of America describing the organization as "a volunteer and unpaid bureau of the War Department of the government." Bellows encourages the formation of more benevolent societies in the United States created to collect items for military donation.…

GLC00700