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Abraham Lincoln Catalog

Lincoln CatalogAbraham Lincoln was perhaps our greatest president. His prudent measures and political skills stabilized the government after the southern states seceded, and his soaring rhetoric inspired a generation to risk their lives for the great twin causes of national reconciliation and abolition of slavery. Our catalog features varied manuscripts and prints related to his election victories, the war effort, and his assassination. Two highlights are his call for a cabinet meeting to discuss compensated emancipation, and the dividers used to trace distances on Civil War maps.

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Some individual, more detailed descriptions are below.  The rest will be posted soon.

 

 

 
# Article Title
1 "He Hath Loved Our Nation"
2 "We cannot have free Government without elections"
3 $100,000 to Capture Jefferson Davis
4 1860 Election Ribbon
5 1862 War Orders Including Preliminary Emancipation
6 1864 Lincoln Camp Re-election Broadsides
7 Abraham Lincoln Bust Cast of Metal from the USS Cumberland
8 Abraham Lincoln Clarifies a Rank Misunderstanding
9 Abraham Lincoln Convenes Cabinet to Discuss Compensated Emancipation: First Presidential Proposal for Abolition
10 Abraham Lincoln Editing His Letter Telling McClellan to Fight
11 Abraham Lincoln in Brief – No Horsing Around
12 Abraham Lincoln Proclaims a National Day of Prayer and Humiliation
13 Abraham Lincoln Signed Military Commission
14 Abraham Lincoln Throws His Hat into the Ring: Developing the Strategy that Eventually Made Him President
15 Abraham Lincoln Works “To Secure the Election of Gen. Taylor”
16 Abraham Lincoln's Inauguration (Harper's Weekly)
17 Abraham Lincoln’s Dividers – Used to Trace Distances on Civil War Maps
18 Abraham Lincoln’s Inaugural Address (Harper's Weekly)
19 Abraham Lincoln’s Last State of the Union Address: A Complete Page in His Own Hand
20 Abraham Lincoln’s Re-election Campaign
21 An Early Lincoln Campaign Biography
22 Baseball and Lincoln on an Indian Peace Medal
23 Booth's death and President Lincoln's New York City funeral (Harper's Weekly)
24 Chief Justice Salmon Chase Summarizes His Civil War Financial Measures
25 Commissioning Brigadier General Tower
26 Currier & Ives Portrait of Lincoln
27 Daniel Sickles, Denying Calls for a Dictator to Replace Lincoln
28 Dr. Ezra Abbott Recounts Lincoln’s Assassination
29 Dred Scott Supreme Court Ruling
30 Edwin M. Stanton Sees Secession as Inevitable
31 Fighting the Expansion of Slavery, Lincoln Proposes His Best Man for Congress
32 First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation
33 Frederick A. Aiken Urging Frémont to Run Against Lincoln
34 Frederick Douglass Signed Deed
35 Frederick Douglass’ Appraisal of John Brown
36 Friends of the Court
37 General George Meade’s Gettysburg Victory
38 George B. McClellan’s 1864 Presidential Aspirations Are Mocked
39 George McClellan: War Candidate Running on a Peace Platform
40 Harper's Weekly and the Civil War
41 John Wilkes Booth (Harper's Weekly)
42 Mary Lincoln Asks that Charles Forbes Be Made White House Messenger
43 North Carolina Unionists Mourn Lincoln’s Death
44 Parade Torch Used by the Wide Awakes
45 Pardoning a Murderous Mutineer. Was Lincoln too Merciful?
46 Playing the Race Card
47 Prelude to Presidential Impeachment
48 President Lincoln and his secretaries (Harper's Weekly)
49 President Lincoln with General Grant (Harper's Weekly)
50 President Lincoln with General Hooker (Harper's Weekly)
51 President Lincoln's death bed and funeral (Harper's Weekly)
52 President Lincoln's Second Inauguration (Harper's Weekly)
53 Rally around the Flag (Harper's Weekly)
54 Rare Gettysburg Battlefield Map Published in 1863
55 Recording Lee’s Surrender, Lincoln’s Assassination, and Davis’s Capture in Women’s Clothes
56 Results of 1860 Election (Harper's Weekly)
57 Schuyler Colfax pens a quote from Lincoln: "Let us have faith that right makes might"
58 Sea Letter For A Martha’s Vineyard Whaler
59 Shakespeare's Works, Inscribed by Mary Todd Lincoln
60 Taking the Copper-Heads to Task in 1864:“Another Rebel Raid (on the Ballot Box) repulsed with great slaughter…”
61 The Congress that Passed the Thirteenth Amendment
62 The Emancipation Proclamation (Harper’s Weekly)
63 The Gettysburg Address
64 The Gettysburg Address
65 The Gettysburg Address – First Day, with Map
66 The Gettysburg Address – Front Page News
67 The Lincoln - Grimsley Trunk
68 The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
69 The Nation Mourns
70 The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation (Harper's Weekly)
71 The Republican Nominee in 1860
72 Theodore Roosevelt Keeps Lincoln Alive Against the Party Machine
73 William Seward Writes to Benjamin Franklin’s Great-Grandson on Improving Fortunes of the Union
74 “A Proclamation For a Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer”
75 “Old Neptune” and Stephen P. Lee Together