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	Browsing 72 item(s) in: George Washington\nAbraham Lincoln\nRobert Morris\n     Image: Creator: Title: Summary: Subject: 61. 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. 62. 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. 63. 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. 64. 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. 65. 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. 66. 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. 67. 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. 68. 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. 69. 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. 70. 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. 71. 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. 72. 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.
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