Collection of two items related to Abraham Lincoln and Lazarus Whitehead Powell [Decimalized]

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Collection Details

GLC#: GLC01011
Type: Header Record
Date: December 1864
Title: Collection of two items related to Abraham Lincoln and Lazarus Whitehead Powell [Decimalized]
Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia
Pagination: 2 items

Time Period

Primary time period: Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877

Sub-Era: The American Civil War

People

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Subjects

President

Military History

Classical World and Ancient Civilization

Children and Family

Government and Civics

Union Forces

Civil War

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Collection Item

Autograph note signed

Pass to allow four orphaned children to go to their Kentucky relation

December 7, 1864

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Lincoln allows three sisters and one brother, Sallie, Juliana, Eliza, and Dabney Overton to pass through the federal lines and go to their relative Grant Green in Henderson, Kentucky. Endorsement written diagonally over the pass states "Rec'd Vienna...

GLC01011.01

Collection Item

Autograph letter signed

to Sallie A. Overton

December 8, 1864

Powell, L.W. (Lazarus Whitehead), 1812-1867

Encloses a pass from President Abraham Lincoln allowing Sallie and her three orphaned siblings to pass the federal lines and go to a relative in Kentucky (see GLC01011.01). States that the pass was requested by Sallie's mother-in-law, Mrs. Grant...

GLC01011.02

Collection of two items related to Abraham Lincoln and Lazarus Whitehead Powell [Decimalized]

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