Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Person
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0750
Overview
Two original commissions belonging to General J.A.J. Lightburn (1824-1901); the first commissioning him a Colonel of the Fourth Regiment of the Virginia Volunteers, signed by F. H. Pierpont, Governor of the restored government of Virginia (August 14, 1861), and the second commissioning him a Brigadier General of Volunteers, signed by Abraham Lincoln (March 16, 1863). Also includes typescript copy of a newspaper article regarding a Fourth of July celebration honoring General Lightburn, held...
Dates:
1861-1865
Lincoln's Mock Funeral in Martinsburg, Civil War Letters
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3378
Overview
Two letters authored by Corporal John Service (Company A, 18th Connecticut) from Martinsburg describing eloquently and in some detail how citizens and soldiers celebrated the end of the Civil War, and mourned over the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. (4/15/1865, four pages, incomplete) (4/25/1865, six pages, complete).
Dates:
1865
Martha Dent Watson (1837-1905) Diary
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1798
Overview
Diary written in Fairmont by an unmarried daughter of Thomas Watson and Rebecca Haymond Watson, the youngest sister of James Otis Watson. Comments concern the Civil War, the Southern cause, Lincoln and his assassination, and the attitudes of Fairmont residents toward Southern sympathizers and returning Confederate soldiers.
Dates:
1864 December 31-1865 December 21
Thomas M. Harris, Civil War Papers and Artifacts
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0080
Overview
Papers and artifacts of General Thomas M. (Mealey) Harris (1817-1906) who served with the 10th West Virginia Infantry and the Army of West Virginia during the Civil War. He was also a member of the military commission in the trial of the Abraham Lincoln assassination conspirators in 1865. Letters, commissions, reports, a photograph, and newspaper clippings chiefly relate to Harris's military service in the 1860s. Items include military commissions; letters from 1862 about Harris's service in...
Dates:
1861-1906; Majority of material found within 1862-1865
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- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
- Diaries and journals. 2
- Politicians -- United States 2
- United States -- Politics and government 2
- West Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Alabama 1
- Alexandria (Va.) 1
- Churches -- Philippi United Brethren 1
- Civil War - Pennsylvania 15th Cavalry, Company K. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 10th Infantry. 1
- Civil War - West Virginia 7th Infantry. 1
- Civil War - soldier's letters. 1
- Civil War -- War diaries 1
- Civil War -- Martinsburg, W. Va. 1
- Civil War battles - Atlanta. 1
- Civil War battles - Warm Sulphur Springs. 1
- Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- Marion County 1
- Ephemera. 1
- Fairmont. 1
- Fayette County (Pa.) 1
- Genealogy 1
- Georgia 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Maps. 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Martinsburg (W. Va.) 1
- Maryland 1
- Monroe County (W. Va.) 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- North Carolina 1
- Oil and Gas Industry and Fields. 1
- Parkersburg (W. Va.) 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Philippi. 1
- Photography 1
- Politics - Western Virginia. 1
- Portrait sculpture 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Ritchie County (W. Va.) 1
- Saint Louis (Mo.) 1
- Tennessee 1
- Virginia -- Governors 1
- Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 1
- Washington (D.C.) 1
- Weather 1
- West Virginia - statehood proclamation. 1
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 1
- West Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 1
- Weston (W. Va.) 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1800-1849 1 + ∧ less
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