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Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862 to Alfred Edmund Burr

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02925.19 Author/Creator: Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 4 August 1860 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 24.6 cm, Width: 19.5 cm Order a Copy

Stevens, writing as chairman of the National Democratic Executive Committee, transmits an article (not included) for publication in the Hartford Times, a Connecticut newspaper. Instructs Burr, Times founder and publisher, to publish his enclosed article immediately. Written on National Democratic Executive Committee stationery containing a printed endorsement for John C. Breckenridge as President and General Joseph Lane for Vice President in the upper left corner. Stevens was governor of the Territory of Washington from 1853 to 1857, and served in the U.S. Congress from 1857 to 1861. During the Civil War, he reached the rank of major general in the Union army. Stevens was killed in 1862 at the Battle of Chantilly, Virginia.

Burr, Alfred Edmund, 1815-1900
Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862
Breckinridge, John C. (John Cabell), 1821-1875
Lane, Joseph, 1801-1881

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