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1860
[Republican campaign token for 1860 election]
With photographs of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin, on opposing sides. Stamped with their names and the year. Gold border. Punched with hole at top.
GLC04102.04
1862/03/26
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
to Gideon Welles re: on Stephen Logan's request for Navy job for young man
A note, written as an endorsement on Logan's letter to Lincoln, supporting Stephen Logan's appeal on behalf of a young man for a navy clerkship. "The writer of this is almost a father to me...."
GLC06646
April 10, 1861
to his Holiness, Pope Pius IX
Letter of credence for Rufus King as U.S. Minister to Papal States.
GLC01000
January 22, 1864
Note suspending execution of Harry C. Fuller at request of O. Kellogg
Requested by Orlando Kellogg
GLC01307
January 13, 1864
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
02 March 1862
to Hannibal Hamlin
Requesting name of Maine man to appoint Brigadier General. With Hamlin's note on bottom that Hiram Berry was appointed, served ably, but was killed at the battle of Chancellorsville on 3 May 1863.
GLC08157
24 November 1864
Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882
to Mrs. Judge White
Discusses some confusion over Nathaniel Banks getting a cabinet post. States that President Lincoln said William Seward and Thurlow Weed never mentioned the subject. She remarks, "This all appears, as a strange dream, and if the information did not...
GLC06681
1865
Kimmel, & Forster, fl. 1864-1865
Columbia's noblest sons
Print of Columbia crowning an image of George Washington and an image of Abraham Lincoln with laurel leaves. To the left of Washington are images from his presidency and the American Revolution, and on the right of Lincoln are images from his...
GLC02597
24 May 1862
Miller, Michael Murray, fl. 1861-1864
to Lile Miller
Written at Camp Washington near Fredericksburg, Virginia, to his wife. Reports that on 23 May, the soldiers were reviewed by President Abraham Lincoln, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Governor Andrew G. Curtin, and General Irvin McDowell...
GLC02155.047
1864/03/04-18
Petitions re: separation of church and state in Memphis, Tenn. [decimalized]
1) Second Presbyterian Church of Memphis. DS: [Memphis], [n.d.] Petition to Abraham Lincoln re: returning control of the church to Union clergy. 7 p. With AES of Abraham Lincoln (4 March 1864) re: necessity of separation between church and state...
GLC04813
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