Douglas –“It’s all over, The darned boot has bursted and I won’t be able to reach the White House.” This July 1, 1860 Chicago Rail Splitter cartoon identifies the split in the Democratic Party as preventing Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois, nominee of the Northern Democratic faction, from reaching the White House. “Squatter Sovereignty” was [...]
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Ten Dollars
July 1, 2020 0 comments$10 Note, Ocoee Bank, Cleaveland, Tennessee, July 1, 1860 Antebellum bank note includes a stylized Native American and a slave picking cotton.
From Mark W Delahay to Abraham Lincoln
June 30, 2020 0 comments
Leavenworth June 30th 1860 Hon A Lincoln My Dear Sir, The Editorial slip1 herewith transmitted is one of a series of Bleeding Editorials which I propose to write for the Times by way of furnishing food for the campaign in the States; I am satisfied they should be copied by all the Republican papers in [...]
Unauthorized Biography of Candidate Lincoln
June 19, 2020 0 comments
I authorize nothing—will be responsible for nothing. (Especially confidential.) Hon: Saml. Galloway SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, June 19, 1860. My dear Sir: Your very kind letter of the 15th is received. Messrs. Follet, Foster & Co.’s Life of me is not by my authority; and I have scarcely been so much astounded by anything, as their public [...]
A Diary From Dixie.
August 19, 2014 0 comments
August 19th.–Began my regular attendance on the Wayside Hospital. To-day we gave wounded men, as they stopped for an hour at the station, their breakfast. Those who are able to come to the table do so. The badly wounded remain in wards prepared for them, where their wounds are dressed by nurses and surgeons, and [...]