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The letter became an immediate media sensation with reprints in the New York Daily Tribune of August 22, 1865, [1] and Lydia Maria Child's The Freedmen's Book the same year. [3] In the letter, Jordan Anderson describes his better life in Ohio, and asks his former master for $11,680 in back wages (well over $100,000 inflation adjusted as of 2024 ...
The Bixby letter in the Boston Evening Transcript. The Bixby letter is a brief, consoling message sent by President Abraham Lincoln in November 1864 to Lydia Parker Bixby, a widow living in Boston, Massachusetts, who was thought to have lost five sons in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Spottswood Rice (November 1819 – October 31, 1907) was a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church and a private in the Union Army during the US Civil War. Rice is most famous for a pair of forcefully written letters to the owner of his wife and children during the war while he was stationed in St. Louis and they were enslaved ...
Valentine Walton [1] (c. 1594–1661) was an English politician, a member of the Parliamentarian faction in the English Civil War, and one of the regicides of King Charles I of England. [ 2 ] Biography
[2]: 37 Wakeman's letters were subsequently edited and published by Lauren Burgess in 1994 as An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, alias Pvt. Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers, 1862–1864. [1] Her relatives still have the letters, a photograph, and a ring of Wakeman's. [2]: 50
That letter from Gen. Douglas MacArthur, commander-in-chief of United States Army Forces in the Pacific, was addressed to Mamie B. Sarracino, Old Laguna, New Mexico.
Sullivan Ballou (March 28, 1829 – July 29, 1861) was an American lawyer and politician from Rhode Island, and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He is remembered for an eloquent letter he wrote to his wife Sarah a week before he was mortally wounded in the First Battle of Bull Run. He was left behind by retreating ...
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