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21.	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.

22.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	Appointment, 1864 Apr. 21, Washington, D.C., of William Kellogg.	Appoints Kellogg minister to Guatemala (a position which he declined). Printed form signed by Lincoln and William H. Seward.	Kellogg, William, 1814-1872. Diplomatic and consular service, American.

23.	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.

24.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ANS (initials) : to Mark Delahay, [1859 May 14].	Accompanied a copy (not present) of a form letter sent to J.L. Dugger and M.F. Conway in Kansas; notes that Lincoln plans to speak in Kansas before the election.	Dugger, Jefferson L., fl. 1859. Conway, M. F. (Martin Franklin), 1827-1882. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. United States -- Politics and government -- 1857-1861. Kansas -- Politics and government -- 1854-1861.

25.	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.

26.	Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885.	ALS, 1865 March 30, Gravelly Run, Va., to Abraham Lincoln, City Point, Va.	Reports on losses at the battle of Dinwiddie, and Union troop movements following it.	Appomattox Campaign, 1865. Dinwiddie Court House, Battle of, Dinwiddie, Va., 1865.

27.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ALS, 1865 Jan. 24, Washington, D.C., to William Menzies.	Announces the Union capture of Wilmington, N.C., the last Confederate seaport. (In reality, only Fort Fisher had been captured; the port was effectively closed, but the city was not taken for another month.)	Wilmington (N.C.) -- History -- 19th century. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Blockades.

28.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ALS, 1865 Apr. 1, City Point, Va., to William H. Seward, Fort Monroe, Va.	Reports the news of Sheridan's victory at Five Forks, which forced Lee to retreat and allowed Union forces to capture Richmond.	United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns. Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888.

29.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ALS, 1864 Sept. 3, Washington, D.C., to Gideon Welles.	Directs the secretary of the Navy to provide the secretary of War with statistics on Navy enlistments.	United States. Navy Dept. United States. War Dept. United States. Navy -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.

30.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ALS, 1852 Mar. 14, Springfield, Ill., to J.C. Londeman & Co., St. Louis.	Orders carpet to match a sample he had sent earlier.	J.C. Londeman & Co.

31.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ALS, 1850 Mar. 22, Springfield, Ill., to Thomas Ewing.	Recommends Dr. Anson G. Henry to the secretary of the Interior for appointment to an Indian agency.	Henry, Anson G., 1804-1865. Indian agents -- Selection and appointment -- United States.

32.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ALS, 1849 Dec. 15, Springfield, Ill., to George W. Rives.	While Lincoln was serving as congressman from Illinois he had apparently been forced to refuse to support a recommendation made by Rives, who then began to abuse him. Here Lincoln expresses his hurt and his wish to resolve the problem.

33.	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.

34.	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.

35.	Lincoln, Solomon, 1804-1881.	ALS, 1848 Mar. 2, Hingham, Mass., to Artemas Hale.	Solomon Lincoln asks Hale to forward a request for genealogical information to his fellow congressman Abraham Lincoln.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Family. Lincoln family.

36.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ALS, 1840 Apr. 17, Springfield, Ill., to Dr. Barrett.	Asks Barrett to procure copies of the Journal and Debates of the New York Convention of 1821 and the Journal of the New York Senate of 1812; reports on local politics in Illinois.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Books and reading. Illinois -- Politics and government -- To 1865.

37.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ALS, 1839 Dec. 11, Springfield, Ill., to Eliza Caldwell Browning, Quincy, Ill.	A mock petition by Lincoln and several of his friends in the state legislature to the wife of a colleague, requesting her to return to Springfield with a train of young ladies for the Christmas season. The "petition" is begun by Lincoln and finished by John J. Hardin, and signed by both of them, as well as John Dawson and E.B. Webb; and followed by a letter from Hardin to Mrs. Browning, endorsed by Lincoln and Webb.	Browning, Eliza Caldwell, fl. 1836-1839. Springfield (Ill.) -- Social life and customs.

38.	King, Austin Augustus, 1802-1870.	ALS with the Missouri delegation and others, 1864 Jan. 5, Washington, D.C., to Abraham Lincoln.	Eleven members of Congress from Missouri, four from Kentucky, and the governor of Utah recommend Judge S.P. McCurdy for a judgeship in the Utah or Idaho Territory. With an ANS by Lincoln, dated 27 January, on the verso.	McCurdy, Solomon Portious Sharp, 1820-1890. United States. Congress -- Missouri delegation. Judges -- Selection and appointment -- United States.

39.	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.

40.	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.