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21.	United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln)	Annual message to Congress : MsS, 1864 Dec. 6, Washington, D.C.	Manuscript, in the hands of three different clerks, of Lincoln's last presidential message to Congress, signed and dated by Lincoln. Topics discussed include foreign relations, the election of 1864, financial affairs, settlement of the West, and a review of the Civil War.	Presidents -- United States -- Messages. United States -- Foreign relations -- 1861-1865. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.

22.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ALS : Springfield, Ill., to William B. Preston, 1849 Apr. 20.	Lincoln, who had helped to secure a Whig victory in the election of 1848, writes to President Zachary Taylor's secretary of the Navy to ask for political patronage for Illinois Whigs.	Whig Party (U.S.) Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850. Patronage, Political -- Illinois.

23.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ALS, 1848 Mar. 6, Washington, D.C., to Solomon Lincoln, Hingham, Mass.	Lincoln, in response to an inquiry from Solomon Lincoln of Massachusetts, tells what he knows of his family's history back to his great-grandfather.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Family. Lincoln family.

24.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ALS : Springfield, Ill., to Dr. D.A. Cheever, Tazewell County, Ill., 1858 July 25.	Lincoln plans to visit Tazewell County soon and asks Cheever and friends to "be fixing things up" until then. ANS at foot of page by recipient's son Washington Irving Cheever.	Tazewell County (Ill.) -- Politics and government.

25.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ALS : Springfield, Ill., to William B. Preston, 1849 May 16.	Lincoln opposes the appointment of Justin Butterfield of Chicago as commissioner of the General Land Office, on the grounds that the has already received several political appointments after elections in which others worked hard and he did nothing.	Butterfield, Justin, 1790-1855. United States. Springfield Land Office -- Officials and employees. Illinois -- Politics and government -- To 1865. Patronage, Political -- Illinois.

26.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ALS : Springfield, Ill., to John Pettit, 1860 Sept. 14.	Lincoln inquires about the progress of his presidential campaign in New York.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1860. New York (State) -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783.

27.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ALS : Washington, D.C., to Thomas S. Flournoy, 1848 Feb. 17.	Lincoln expresses his support for Zachary Taylor as the Whig candidate for president and assesses the Whigs' chances in the Illinois elections.	Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850. Whig Party (U.S.)

28.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ALS : City Point, Va., to Ulysses S. Grant, 1865 Apr. 6.	Lincoln describes his secret meeting with the Confederate assistant secretary of war, John A. Campbell, to discuss the possibility of peace, and directs Grant to continue his campaign in Virginia. Also mentions Secretary of State William Seward's carriage accident.	Campbell, John Archibald, 1811-1889. Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872 -- Health. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Peace. Appomattox Campaign, 1865.

29.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ALS : Washington, D.C., to Gideon Welles, 1861 Mar. 9.	Lincoln asks Welles, the secretary of the Navy, to call on him at once.	Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878. United States. Navy Dept. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.

30.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ALS : Washington, D.C., to William B. Preston, 1849 June 24.	Lincoln asks the secretary of the Navy to inquire into the case of his friend A.F. Patrick, who has been dismissed from a clerkship in his department, to clear him from unjust charges and find a temporary appointment for him.	Patrick, Amos F. United States. Navy Dept. -- Officials and employees.

31.	Lewis, Thomas, store owner, defendant.	Plea : Springfield, Ill., 1855 June 16.	Lewis's lawyers, McWilliams, William Henry Herndon, and Abraham Lincoln, plead actio non to Henry Hageman's suit against their client. Entirely in Lincoln's hand and signed by him "McWilliams, Lincoln & Herndon".	Lewis, Thomas, store owner -- Trials, litigation, etc. Hageman, Henry -- Trials, litigation, etc.

32.	Greene, W. G.	ALS : Petersburg, Ill., to John Todd Stuart, 1864 Mar. 18.	Letter of W.G. Greene to John Todd Stuart, 18 March, asking assistance in procuring the release of his brother-in-law F.M. White, a prisoner of war. On the integral leaf are an undated letter to Stuart from George Spears in support of Greene's request and an autograph endorsement signed by Abraham Lincoln, 31 March, directing that White be allowed to take the loyalty oath and be released.	White, F. M. -- Imprisonment. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. Amnesty -- United States.

33.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	Papers relating to Mary A. Stevens, 1864.	Letter of introduction and safe-conduct pass for Mary A. Stevens, who wished to go through Union lines to Houston to dispose of property there. The first item is a secretarial letter to Lincoln from Andrew Johnson, then military governor of Tennessee and Lincoln's running mate, dated 31 October, introducing Mrs. Stevens and requesting that she be given a pass. The original envelope is present. The pass itself is an ADS by Lincoln on a small card, dated 14 November.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Stevens, Mary A. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.

34.	Elliott, Andrew, defendant.	Answer in Berry v. Elliott et al : Springfield, Ill., 1846 Mar. 26.	Legal document in the hand of Abraham Lincoln in a case involving the estate of one of the first settlers in Springfield. Elisha Kelly from North Carolina, with his father Henry and four brothers, John, Elijah, William and George, were the first to build cabins on the site of Springfield. William Kelly later left for Missouri, but before he left he placed several notes in the hands of Andrew Elliott, who opened the Buckhorn Tavern at Springfield in 1821, to be collected for his daughter. This document deals with the suit of John Berry on behalf of his daughter, Kelly's granddaughter, against Elliott. The matter was complicated by certain verbal instructions given by Kelly after his departure, and so the full history of the case is here set forth. Lincoln represented Elliott, and at one point the case was ordered to be arbitrated. Lincoln and Josiah Lamborn, Kelly's lawyer, drew up a statement of the facts and submitted it to David A. Smith, a lawyer of Jacksonville, for arbitration. Smith ruled that Elliott was authorized to retain the control of the fund during Maria's minority. This document is the respondent's statement, signed by Elliott, and witnessed on 26 March 1846 by John Calhoun. On the back of the last page A. M. Heslep, representing the complainant, asks satisfaction of the Circuit Court of Sangamon County, charging that "the answer of complainant is insufficient untrue & evasive." John Calhoun had been Lincoln's chief when he was a surveyor.	Elliott, Andrew -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- Trials, litigation, etc.

35.	Goodrich, Grant, fl. 1863.	ALS : Chicago, to Abraham Lincoln, 1863 July 6.	Introduces J.G. Hamilton, whose brother-in-law William T. Smithson has been imprisoned for treason. In an autograph endorsement dated 1 August, Lincoln asks that Smithson's case be turned over to the civil court.	Hamilton, J. G., fl. 1863. Smithson, William T., fl. 1861-1863 -- Imprisonment. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Collaborationists.

36.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	Baltimore address : holograph ms., [not after 1864 Apr. 18].	In this speech given at the Sanitary Fair in Baltimore, 18 April 1864, Lincoln analyzes conflicting definitions of the word "liberty" and comments on the rumors of the massacre of surrendered black Union troops at Fort Pillow. He takes responsibility for the decision to admit blacks to the army and acknowledges that having employed them the government must give them equal protection. He promises that the facts of the matter will be found, and if the news is true, there will be retribution.	Fort Pillow, Battle of, Tenn., 1864. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Atrocities. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American. African Americans -- Tennessee. Liberty.

37.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ALS : Springfield, Ill., to W.H. Wells, Waynesburg, Pa., 1859 Jan. 8.	In response to a request for a copy of his debates with Stephen A. Douglas, Lincoln writes that Douglas's support for the Dred Scott decision and his refusal to condemn slavery make it impossible for Republicans to support him.	Douglas, Stephen Arnold, 1813-1861 -- Views on slavery. Slavery -- United States. Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1858. United States -- Politics and government -- 1857-1861. Illinois -- Politics and government -- To 1865.

38.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ALS and photograph : Washington, D.C., to Mary Motley, Washington, D.C., 1862 May 17.	In reply to a request from the daughter of the historian John Lothrop Motley, Lincoln sends his signature. With envelope addressed and franked by Lincoln's secretary John G. Nicolay. Accompanied by a signed photograph (carte-de-visite, by Mathew Brady).	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Portraits.

39.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ALS, 1848 Mar. 24, Washington, D.C., to Solomon Lincoln, Hingham, Mass.	In reply to a request for genealogical information, Abraham Lincoln had written to Solomon Lincoln what he knew of his family back to his great-great-grandfather. In this letter he answers some of Solomon's questions based on that account, and suggests further lines of inquiry.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Family. Lincoln family.

40.	United States Sanitary Commission.	Subscription book for facsimiles of the Emancipation Proclamation, [1863 Oct.], Washington, D.C.	In October 1863, Abraham Lincoln sent his original manuscript of the Emancipation Proclamation to be sold for the benefit of the Northwestern Fair of the United States Sanitary Commission, forerunner of the Red Cross. It was purchased by Thomas B. Bryan, President of the Soldiers' Home of Chicago, who decided to sell lithographic copies of the proclamation to benefit sick and disabled Union servicemen. This subscription book for facsimiles of the Emancipation Proclamation contains the signatures of Lincoln, Vice President Hannibal Hamlin, all cabinet members, and members of Congress from every state in the Union, including the future president James A. Garfield, all personally solicited by Bryan.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.