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Hadley attended a Quaker school in Plainfield. In 1859, he attended Butler University in Indianapolis, leaving after one year before to enlist in the Union Army following the outbreak of the Civil War. Hadley served in a non-combat capacity; as a Quaker, he was a conscientious objector due to his religion's doctrine of pacifism.
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 ...
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.
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The letters span from October 1, 1861, at Paducah, KY through November 8, 1863, at Folly Island, SC. G Benson Fox Civil War Letter. In 2022, a grant was received from the W.E. Smith Family Charitable Trust to digitize and copy these letters, of which countless historians and students have used in research and preservation of Civil War history. [17]
Three hundred love letters written during WWII were discovered in a trunk and tell the story of a forbidden love between two gay men. ... The secret romance between a World War II soldier and his ...
Abraham Lincoln in 1863. Address of the International Working Men's Association to Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America is a letter written by Karl Marx between November 22 to 29, 1864 that was addressed to then-United States President Abraham Lincoln by United States Ambassador Charles Francis Adams Sr. [1] The letter was written on behalf of the International Workingmen ...
John Beauchamp Jones (March 6, 1810 – February 4, 1866) was a novelist (particularly of the American West and the American South) whose books enjoyed popularity during the mid-19th century and a well-connected literary editor and political journalist in the two decades leading up to the American Civil War.