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1.	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.

2.	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.

3.	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.

4.	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.

5.	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.

6.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	Plan of a military campaign : AMs, [ca. 1861 Oct. 1], Washington, D.C.	Plans for an attack on the Confederate force defending the railroad connecting Virginia and Tennessee where it passed through Cumberland Gap. Lincoln begins by summarizing Union and Confederate positions in Kentucky and its approaches, then gives directions for troops to gather at Louisville and Cincinnati, meet at Lexington, and pick up another force on the way to the gap. This attack, which was never carried out, was to coincide with movements to seize positions on the South Carolina coast.	United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns. Cumberland Gap Region (Tenn.) -- History, Military. Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 1823-1914. Crittenden, George Bibb, 1812-1880. Fremont, John Charles, 1813-1890. McClellan, George Brinton, 1826-1885. Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891. Thomas, George Henry, 1816-1870. Zollicoffer, Felix Kirk, 1812-1862.

7.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	LS, 1863 Aug. 10, Washington, D.C., to Elizabeth E. Hutter and others.	Thanking a group of women who had sent him a flag and raised a sum of money for the benefit of wounded soldiers.	United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.

8.	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.

9.	Mitchell, A. S., fl. 1864.	ALS : to William T. Sherman, 1864 Mar. 21.	Asks for the release on oath of three minors, now prisoners of war, who had been forced into the Confederate Army. With autograph endorsements by Sherman, 20 March; and Abraham Lincoln, 14 April, directing that the boys be released on taking the loyalty oath of 8 December 1863.	United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. Amnesty -- United States. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Juvenile. Child soldiers -- United States.

10.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ADS, 1865 Feb. 20, Washington, D.C.	Endorsement clipped from a larger document, directing that a group of prisoners of war be allowed to take the loyalty oath prescribed by the amnesty proclamation of 8 December 1863 and be discharged.	United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. Amnesty -- United States.

11.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ADS, 1864 Nov. 26, Washington, D.C.	Endorsement clipped from a larger document, directing that a prisoner of war be allowed to take the loyalty oath prescribed by the amnesty proclamation of 8 December 1863 and be discharged.	United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. Amnesty -- United States.

12.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ADS, 1864 July 27, Washington, D.C.	Endorsement clipped from a larger document, directing that a prisoner of war be allowed to take the loyalty oath prescribed by the amnesty proclamation of 8 December 1863 and be discharged.	United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. Amnesty -- United States.

13.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ADS, 1864 Apr. 20, Washington, D.C.	Endorsement clipped from a larger document, directing that a prisoner of war be allowed to take the loyalty oath prescribed by the amnesty proclamation of 8 December 1863 and be discharged.	United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. Amnesty -- United States.

14.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	ADS, 1864 Apr. 18.	Endorsement on a letter, directing that a prisoner of war be allowed to take the loyalty oath prescribed by the amnesty proclamation of 8 December 1863 and be discharged.	United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. Amnesty -- United States.

15.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	Excerpt from the House Divided speech : AMsS, 1860, Springfield, Ill.	A passage from the speech first delivered when Lincoln accepted the Illinois Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, 16 June 1858, stating his belief that the nation could not remain half slave and half free and that neither side could prevail until a crisis had been reached.	United States -- History -- 1815-1861. Slavery -- United States. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Views on slavery.

16.	Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.	Notes on recruiting Negroes : AMs, Washington, D.C., [1862 July 22?].	Notes on Lincoln's willingness to recruit Afro-Americans for the armed forces, depending on the person's slave or free status and the loyalty and consent of slaves' owners. Basler surmises that the notes were prepared for the cabinet meeting of 22 July 1862, a week after Lincoln signed legislation allowing such recruitment, at which he presented the first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.	United States -- Armed Forces -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American.

17.	Craig, Archibald, defendant.	Plea : Coles County, Ill., 1842 Oct. [25].	Craig pleads not guilty in the suit filed against him by Benjamin Turney. Signed by his attorneys, Linder and Walker; with a statement of the plaintiff's concurrence in the hand of his attorney Abraham Lincoln signed by him "Ficklin & Lincoln". Endorsed on the verso "Filed October 25th 1842".	Turney, Benjamin -- Trials, litigation, etc. Craig, Archibald -- Trials, litigation, etc.

18.	Tripps, James, fl. 1864.	ALS : Orange, N.J., to C.M. Parkman, 1864 Oct. 25.	Asks Parkman's help in obtaining the release of his son Capt. James M. Tripps from Libby Prison. With an autograph endorsement signed by Abraham Lincoln, 31 Oct., directing that Tripps be exchanged for Capt. William F. Gordon.	Tripps, James M., fl. 1864 -- Imprisonment. Gordon, William F., Jr. -- Imprisonment. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons.

19.	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.

20.	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.)