Letter from U.S. Rep. John A. Kasson (Republican, Iowa) to Abraham Lincoln on promotion of Gen. Grenville M. Dodge to major general, referencing accompanying letter of Gen. Richard Oglesby and related remarks by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. Also noted is…
Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Joseph A. Wright regarding Wright's prospects in an United States Congressional race in western Indiana. July 31, 1862. Wright, a former Indiana governor, was at the time filling a vacancy in the United States Senate…
Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Hawkins Taylor, a prominent Republican of Keokuk, Iowa who had represented Lee County in the state's first territorial legislature. Lincoln comments on Stephen A. Douglas' prospects of becoming the Democratic…
