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Post by mdenney on Mar 12, 2011 12:33:08 GMT -5
Monday, December 1, 1862. Washington, DC. Abraham Lincoln President writes Judge Adv. Gen. Joseph Holt: "Three hundred Indians have been sentenced to death in Minnesota by a Military Commission, and execution only awaits my action. I wish your legal opinion whether if I should conclude to execute only a part of them, I must myself designate which." Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Holt, 1 December 1862, CW, 5:537-38. -------- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 5.Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. To Joseph Holt [1] Executive Mansion, Washington, Judge Advocate General Dec. 1. 1862. Sir: Three hundred Indians have been sentenced to death in Minnesota by a Military Commission, and execution only awaits my action. I wish your legal opinion whether if I should conclude to execute only a part of them, I must myself designate which, or Page 538 could I leave the designation to some officer on the ground? Yours very truly A. LINCOLN Annotation [1] ALS-P, ISLA. See Lincoln's communication to John Pope, November 10, supra. Joseph Holt, who had been appointed judge advocate general as of September 3, 1862, replied to Lincoln's letter on December 1: ``I do not understand the precise form in which the question, referred to in your note of this morning, presents itself. If it be on an application to pardon the indians condemned, or a part of them, I am quite sure that the power cannot be delegated, and that the designation of the individuals, which its exercise involves, must necessarily be made by yourself. The designation of those upon whom the sentence is to be executed, is but the exercise of the same power, being merely an approval of the sentences and a refusal to pardon. I am not aware of any instance in which the delegation of this delicate and responsible trust, has been attempted. ``In view of the large amount of human life involved in these proceedings, would it not be well---if this step has not already been taken---to submit them to the Attorney General for the purpose of more satisfactorily determining the question of their regularity?'' (DLC-RTL). See further Lincoln letter to Henry H. Sibley, December 6, infra. www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A1127www.thelincolnlog.org/view/search?search%5Btext%5D=minnesota+indian&commit=GO&search%5Badvanced%5D=0&search%5Bstart%283i%29%5D=&search%5Bstart%282i%29%5D=&search%5Bstart%281i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%283i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%282i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%281i%29%5D=&search%5Bplace%5D= |
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Post by mdenney on Mar 12, 2011 12:33:54 GMT -5
Abraham Lincoln Friday, December 5, 1862. Washington, DC President receives Senate resolution requesting "all information in his possession touching the late Indian barbarities in the State of Minnesota." Abraham Lincoln to Caleb B. Smith, 5 December 1862, CW, 5:540-41. Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 5.Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 To Caleb B. Smith [1] Hon. Sec. of Interior Executive Mansion, Sir: Washington, Dec. 5. 1862. Please have the Commissioner of Indian Affairs make out and send me as complete an answer to the enclosed Resolution of the Page 541Senate, as the means for so, doing, can be found in his Office. Yours very truly A. LINCOLN Annotation [1] ALS, MnHi. The resolution adopted by the Senate on December 5 requested the president to furnish ``all information in his possession touching the late Indian barbarities in the State of Minnesota. . . .'' See Lincoln's communication to the Senate, December 11, infra. www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A1134www.thelincolnlog.org/view/search?search%5Btext%5D=minnesota+indian&commit=GO&search%5Badvanced%5D=0&search%5Bstart%283i%29%5D=&search%5Bstart%282i%29%5D=&search%5Bstart%281i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%283i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%282i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%281i%29%5D=&search%5Bplace%5D= |
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Post by mdenney on Mar 12, 2011 12:34:27 GMT -5
Abraham Lincoln Saturday, December 6, 1862. Washington, DC. Lincoln writes to General Henry H. Sibley, who heads a military commission that sentenced 303 Dakota Indians to death for killing military personnel and civilians in Minnesota. After evaluating the testimony, Lincoln recommended that only thirty-nine of the accused merited execution. On this day, Lincoln issues an order listing the names of the thirty-nine "Indians and Half-breeds . . . to be executed on Friday, the nineteenth day of December." Annual Message to Congress, www.thelincolnlog.org/view/1 December 1862, CW, 5:518-537; Abraham Lincoln to Joseph Holt, www.thelincolnlog.org/view/1 December 1862, CW, 5:537-538; Abraham Lincoln to Henry H. Sibley, www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A11376 December 1862, CW, 5:542-43. ============= Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 5.Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 To Henry H. Sibley [1] Brigadier General H.H. Sibley Executive Mansion, St. Paul Washington, Minnesota. December 6th. 1862. Ordered that of the Indians and Half-breeds sentenced to be hanged by the Military Commission, composed of Colonel Crooks, Lt. Colonel Marshall, Captain Grant, Captain Bailey, and Lieutenant Olin, [2] and lately sitting in Minnesota, you cause to be executed on Friday the nineteenth day of December, instant, the following named, towit ``Te-he-hdo-ne-cha.'' No. 2. by the record. ``Tazoo'' alias ``Plan-doo-ta.'' No. 4. by the record. ``Wy-a-tah-to-wah'' No. 5 by the record. ``Hin-han-shoon-ko-yag.'' No. 6 by the record. ``Muz-za-bom-a-du.'' No. 10. by the record. ``Wah-pay-du-ta.'' No. 11. by the record. ``Wa-he-hud.'' No. 12. by the record. ``Sna-ma-ni.'' No. 14. by the record. ``Ta-te-mi-na.'' No. 15. by the record. ``Rda-in-yan-kna.'' No. 19. by the record. ``Do-wan-sa.'' No. 22. by the record. ``Ha-pan.'' No. 24. by the record. ``Shoon-ka-ska.'' (White Dog). No. 35. by the record. ``Toon-kan-e-chah-tay-mane.'' No. 67. by the record. ``E-tay-hoo-tay.'' No. 68. by the record. ``Am-da-cha.'' No. 69. by the record. ``Hay-pee-don---or, Wamne-omne-ho-ta.'' No. 70. by the record. ``Mahpe-o-ke-na-ji.'' No. 96. by the record. ``Henry Milord''---a Half-breed. No. 115. by the record. ``Chaskay-don''---or Chaskayetay.'' No. 121. by the record. ``Baptiste Campbell'' a Halfbreed. No. 138. by the record. ``Tah-ta-kay-gay.'' No. 155. by the record. ``Ha-pink-pa.'' No. 170 by the record. Page 543``Hypolite Ange'' a Half-breed. No. 175 by the record. ``Na-pay-Shue.'' No. 178. by the record. ``Wa-kan-tan-ka.'' No. 210. by the record. ``Toon-kan-ka-yag-e-na-jin.'' No. 225. by the record. ``Ma-kat-e-na-jin.'' No. 254. by the record. ``Pa-zee-koo-tay-ma-ne.'' No. 264. by the record. ``Ta-tay-hde-don.'' No. 279. by the record. ``Wa-She-choon,'' or ``Toon- kan-shkan-shkan-mene-hay.'' No. 318. by the record. ``A-e-cha-ga.'' No. 327. by the record. ``Ha-tan-in-koo.'' No. 333. by the record. ``Chay-ton-hoon-ka.'' No. 342. by the record. ``Chan-ka-hda.'' No. 359. by the record. ``Hda-hin-hday.'' No. 373. by the record. ``O-ya-tay-a-koo.'' No. 377. by the record. ``May-hoo-way-wa.'' No. 382. by the record. ``Wa-kin-yan-na.'' No. 383 by the record The other condemned prisoners you will hold subject to further orders, taking care that they neither escape, nor are subjected to any unlawful violence. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States. Annotation [1] ALS, MnHi. First governor of Minnesota, Henry H. Sibley had been appointed brigadier general on September 29 and placed in command of the District of Minnesota on November 23, 1862. For his reply to this letter see the note to Lincoln's telegram to Sibley, December 16, infra. [2] Members of the commission were: Colonel William Crooks of the Sixth Minnesota Volunteers, Lieutenant Colonel William R. Marshall of the Seventh Minnesota Volunteers, Captain Hiram P. Grant and Captain Hiram S. Bailey of the Sixth Minnesota, and Captain Rollin C. Olin, assistant adjutant general on Sibley's staff. www.thelincolnlog.org/view/search?search%5Btext%5D=minnesota+indian&commit=GO&search%5Badvanced%5D=0&search%5Bstart%283i%29%5D=&search%5Bstart%282i%29%5D=&search%5Bstart%281i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%283i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%282i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%281i%29%5D=&search%5Bplace%5D= |
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Post by mdenney on Mar 12, 2011 12:35:23 GMT -5
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Post by mdenney on Mar 12, 2011 12:36:14 GMT -5
Abraham Lincoln Thursday, December 11, 1862. Washington, DC. Transmits to Senate treaty with Republic of Liberia and information touching Indian barbarities in Minnesota. Abraham Lincoln to the Senate, www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A115311 December 1862, CW, 5:550; Abraham Lincoln to the Senate, www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln5;node=lincoln5%3A115411 December 1862, CW, 5:550-51. ------------- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 5.Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. To the Senate [1] To the Senate of the United States December 11, 1862 I transmit to the Senate for its consideration with a view to ratification, a Treaty between the United States and the Republic of Liberia, signed at London by the Plenipotentiaries of the parties, on the twenty-first of October, last. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Washington, 11th. December, 1862. Annotation [1] DS, DNA RG 46, Senate 37B B9. The Senate ratified the treaty on January 9, 1863. ------------------ Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 5.Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. To the Senate [2] To the Senate of the United States: December 11, 1862 In compliance with your resolution of December 5th, 1862, requesting the President ``to furnish the Senate with all information in his possession touching the late Indian barbarities in the State of Minnesota, and also the evidence in his possession upon which some of the principal actors and head men were tried and condemned to death,'' I have the honor to state, that on receipt of said resolution I transmitted the same to the Secretary of the Interior, accompanied by a note, a copy of which is herewith inclosed, marked ``A.,'' and in response to which I received, through that Department, a letter of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, a copy of which is herewith inclosed, marked ``B.'' I further state, that on the 8th. day of November last I received a long telegraphic dispatch from Major General Pope, at St. Paul, Minnesota, simply announcing the names of the persons sentenced Page 551 to be hanged. I immediately telegraphed to have transcripts of the records in all the cases forwarded to me, which transcripts, however, did not reach me until two or three days before the present meeting of Congress. Meantime I received, through telegraphic dispatches and otherwise, appeals in behalf of the condemned, appeals for their execution, and expressions of opinion as to proper policy in regard to them, and to the Indians generally in that vicinity, none of which, as I understand, falls within the scope of your inquiry. After the arrival of the transcripts of records, but before I had sufficient opportunity to examine them, I received a joint letter from one of the Senators and two of the Representatives from Minnesota, which contains some statements of fact not found in the records of the trials, and for which reason I herewith transmit a copy, marked ``C.'' I also, for the same reason, inclose a printed memorial of the citizens of St Paul, addressed to me, and forwarded with the letter aforesaid. Anxious to not act with so much clemency as to encourage another outbreak on the one hand, nor with so much severity as to be real cruelty on the other, I caused a careful examination of the records of trials to be made, in view of first ordering the execution of such as had been proved guilty of violating females. Contrary to my expectations, only two of this class were found. I then directed a further examination, and a classification of all who were proven to have participated in massacres, as distinguished from participation in battles. This class numbered forty, and included the two convicted of female violation. One of the number is strongly recommended by the Commission which tried them, for commutation to ten years' imprisonment. [2] FOOTNOTES}>(2) I have ordered the other thirty-nine to be executed on Friday, the 19th. instant. The order was dispatched from here on Monday, the 8th. instant, by a messenger to General Sibley; and a copy of which order is herewith transmitted, marked ``D.'' An abstract of the evidence as to the forty is herewith enclosed, marked ``E.'' To avoid the immense amount of copying, I lay before the Senate the original transcripts of the records of trials, as received by me. This is as full and complete a response to the resolution as it is in my power to make. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Annotation [1] DS, DNA RG 46, Senate 37A F2. 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Post by mdenney on Mar 12, 2011 12:37:05 GMT -5
Abraham Lincoln Tuesday, December 16, 1862. Washington, DC President approves change in date for execution of Minnesota Indians from December 19, 1862 to December 26, 1862. Abraham Lincoln to Henry H. Sibley, 16 December 1862, www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A11CW, 6:6-7. -------- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 6.Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. To Henry H. Sibley [1] Brigadier General H. H. Sibley Executive Mansion, St. Paul, Minnesota. Washington, Dec. 16. 1862 As you suggest, let the executions fixed for Friday, the nineteenth (19th.) instant, be postponed to, and be done on, Friday the twentysixth (26th.) instant. A. LINCOLN Private Operator please send this very carefully and accurately. A. L. Annotation [1] ALS, RPB. On December 15 General Sibley replied to Lincoln's letter of December 6 supra as follows: ``Your order of 6th Inst. for the Execution of 39 Indians just recd by Special messenger They are imprisoned at Mankato 90 Page 7 miles distant & the time fixed 19th is too short for preparation & for concentrating the troops necessary to protect the other Indians & preserve the peace The excitement prevails all sections of the state & secret combinations Exist Embracing thousands of citizens pledged to execute all the Indians matters must be managed with great discretion & as much secrecy as possible to prevent a fearful collision between the U.S. forces & the citizens. I respectfully ask for authority to postpone the Execution one week from the 19th Inst if I deem necessary Please reply at once. Your directions of 9th relative to Chakaydon rec'd today by mail & will be obeyed.'' (DLC-RTL). The communication referred to in the last sentence of Sibley's despatch has not been located. On December 27, Sibley telegraphed as follows: ``I have the honor to inform you that the 38 Indians and half-breeds ordered by you for execution were hung yesterday at Mankato, at 10 a.m. Everything went off quietly, and the other prisoners are well secured.'' (OR, I, XXII, I, 880). One of the thirty-nine listed in Lincoln's communication to Sibley, December 6, supra, ``Chaska-don'' or ``Chaskay-etay,'' alias Robert Hopkins, was not executed. On August 18, 1864, Lincoln endorsed a petition for Hopkins ``Pardons [sic]. A. LINCOLN'' (DNA WR RG 153, Judge Advocate General, NN 2323). www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A11============= www.thelincolnlog.org/view/search?search%5Btext%5D=minnesota+indian&commit=GO&search%5Badvanced%5D=0&search%5Bstart%283i%29%5D=&search%5Bstart%282i%29%5D=&search%5Bstart%281i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%283i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%282i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%281i%29%5D=&search%5Bplace%5D= |
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Post by mdenney on Mar 12, 2011 12:41:01 GMT -5
Abraham Lincoln Friday, February 13, 1863. Washington, DC. President communicates to House of Representatives all information in Dept. of Interior respecting causes of recent outbreaks of Indian tribes in Northwest. Abraham Lincoln to Galusha A. Grow, www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A21013 February 1863, CW, 6:104. ---------------- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 6.Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. To Galusha A. Grow [1] Washington, February 13, 1863. Sir: I herewith communicate to the House of Representatives, in answer to their resolution of the 18th of December last, a report from the Secretary of the Interior, containing all the information in the possession of the department respecting the causes of the recent outbreaks of the Indian tribes in the north-west, which has not heretofore been transmitted to Congress. Hon. Galusha A. Grow, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Speaker of the House of Representatives. Annotation [1] Thirty-seventh Congress, Third Session, House of Representatives Executive Document, No. 68. Secretary Usher's report, concluding that the ``real cause of outbreak is difficult, if not impossible, to determine,'' may be found in the same source. www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln6;node=lincoln6%3A210----------------------------------- www.thelincolnlog.org/view/search?search%5Btext%5D=minnesota+indian&commit=GO&search%5Badvanced%5D=0&search%5Bstart%283i%29%5D=&search%5Bstart%282i%29%5D=&search%5Bstart%281i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%283i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%282i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%281i%29%5D=&search%5Bplace |
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Post by mdenney on Mar 12, 2011 12:42:07 GMT -5
Abraham Lincoln Saturday, April 30, 1864. Washington, DC. President Lincoln "pardon " and frees twenty-five "Indian prisoners now in confinement at Camp McClellan near Davenport Iowa." The men represent a portion of the Indians who have been confined since November 1862, as a result of the August 1862 Dakota uprising. Missionary Thomas S. Williamson and Special Commissioner to the Indians George E. H. Day wrote to Lincoln and urged him to release the prisoners. Day wrote, "n the name of humanity beg that you will . . . order them released and sent to take care of their starving families now perishing for want of food." Thomas S. Williamson to Abraham Lincoln, 27 April 1864; William P. Dole to Abraham Lincoln, 28 April 1864, both in Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Order for Pardon of Sioux Indians, 30 April 1864, CW, 7:325-26.
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Order for Pardon of Sioux Indians [1]
April 30, 1864
List of Indian prisoners now in confinement at Camp McClellan near Davenport Iowa pardoned and to be liberated and sent to their families
Tapeta Tanka Wiyaka Tunkanhuamani
Tahohpi wakan Kimyan hiotan Boyaya
Wakanhotito Oye Muza Iyasamani
Tate sica Cinkpa tawa Icawtuze
Wiyuha Tunkan Canholiska Manikiya
Tunkan Oyate yanka Wakan inapedan alias Ahotonna
Pantaninniye Muza kiyemani Maza adidi
Contidoka duta Kalpantpan ku Tate Ibomdu
Kimyan hiyaya Tahokaye
Page 326The persons named on this list are pardoned and ordered to be sent to their families or relatives. A. LINCOLN
April 30, 1864
Annotation
[1] D and AES-P, ISLA. Lincoln's endorsement is written in the right-hand margin of the single page containing the list. A copy of the list preserved in the Lincoln Papers contains Lincoln's endorsement ``Pardoned to-day, April 30, 1864.'' (DLC-RTL). Reverend Thomas S. Williamson, missionary to the Sioux, had written to Lincoln on April 27, assigning reasons for pardoning the Sioux imprisoned at Davenport, Iowa, since November, 1862, under sentence of death. Lincoln submitted the letter to William P. Dole, who answered on April 28: ``I have read the letter of the Rev. Mr Williamson to you asking the pardon of certain Indians now under the sentence of death at Davenport and wish to say . . . that I do not believe any injury will accrue to the white people if you should exercise the pardoning power in favour of a portion of these people and I have so much confidence in . . . Mr. Williamson that I have no hesitancy in uniting in his recommendation in favor of the particular persons named by him. . . .'' (DLC-RTL).
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Post by mdenney on Mar 12, 2011 12:45:56 GMT -5
Wednesday, October 26, 1864. Washington, DC. Abraham Lincoln Orders discharge of "Big Eagle," Indian confined at Davenport, Iowa. Order for Discharge of Big Eagle, 26 October 1864, CW, 8:76. Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 8.Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Order for Discharge of Big Eagle [1] Let the Indian ``Big Eagle'' now confined at Davenport, Iowa, be discharged at once. A. LINCOLN Oct. 26. 1864 Annotation [1] ADS-P, ISLA. See further Lincoln's telegram to Alfred Sully, November 19, infra. www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A154www.thelincolnlog.org/view/search?search%5Btext%5D=1862+indian+war&commit=GO&search%5Badvanced%5D=&search%5Bstart%283i%29%5D=&search%5Bstart%282i%29%5D=&search%5Bstart%281i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%283i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%282i%29%5D=&search%5Bend%281i%29%5D=&search%5Bplace%5D===================================== Saturday, November 19, 1864. Washington, DC. Issues second order to release Indian "Big Eagle" from confinement at Davenport, Iowa. Abraham Lincoln to Alfred Sully, 19 November 1864, CW, 8:116. Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 8.Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. To Alfred Sully [1] Officer in command at Executive Mansion, Davenport, Iowa. Washington, Nov. 19. 1864. Let the Indian ``Big Eagle'' be discharged. I ordered this some time ago. A. LINCOLN Annotation [1] ALS, DNA WR RG 107, Presidential Telegrams, I, 243. See Lincoln's order of October 26, supra. On November 14, 1864, George S. C. Dow, a lawyer and banker of Davenport, Iowa, wrote Lincoln: ``You will remember me as the person to whom you were kind enough to give an order for the release of the Indian `Big Eagle.' ``This order failed to effect his release. The person in charge and to whom I presented it, treated me very rudely. I may as well say that he insulted me most grossly. He treated also the order and yourself with great contempt because as he said, you ought to know better than to write an order in pencil, or give it to a civilian. ``I did not intend to trouble you again, but for reasons not necessary to be stated, I think I should report the facts to you, and request of you, that you will be kind enough to direct a note to the proper military officer, requesting him to issue the proper order for `Big Eagle's' discharge. . . .'' (DLC-RTL). General Alfred Sully was in command of the District of Iowa with headquarters at Davenport, from August, 1864, through April, 1865, but no reply from any officer at Davenport has been found. On December 3, 1864, AGO Special Orders No. 430, directed that ```Big Eagle,' an Indian, now in confinement at Davenport, Iowa, will, upon the receipt of this Order, be immediately released from confinement and set at liberty.'' www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln8;node=lincoln8%3A254 |
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Post by mdenney on Mar 14, 2011 16:17:53 GMT -5
The works of Abraham Lincoln ([c1908]) Author: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919; Miller, Marion Mills, 1864-1949; Carpenter, F. B. (Francis Bicknell), 1830-1900; Clifford, John H. (John Herbert) Volume: 3 Publisher: New York, Newton and Cartwright Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT Language: English Call number: 114223 Digitizing sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Book contributor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Collection: americana This book has an editable web page on Open Library. Description v.1. Abraham Lincoln: the true story of a great life. Early speeches, 1832-1856.--v.2. Speeches and debates, 1856-1859.--v.3. Speeches and presidential addresses, 1859-1865.--Anecdotes and conversations of Lincoln, by F. B. Carpenter. State papers, 1861-1865.--v.4. Letters and telegrams, messages to Congress, military orders, autobiography, memoranda, etc Be the first to write a review Downloaded 150 times Reviews Selected metadata Scanningcenter: il Mediatype: texts Identifier: worksofabrahamli03linc Imagecount: 660 Ppi: 500 Camera: Canon 5D Operator: craiglll@... Scanner: scribe1.il.archive.org Scandate: 20080410001400 Identifier-access: www.archive.org/details/worksofabrahamli03linc Identifier-ark: ark:/13960/t5x63jf5m Sponsordate: 20080531 Filesxml: Wed Aug 19 4:26:06 UTC 2009 www.archive.org/details/worksofabrahamli03linc---------------------------------- =================== And here a link to alot of books I been triing to research on Minnesota www.archive.org/search.php?query=Abraham%20Lincoln%20%20papers |
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