The Lincoln Mailbag: America Writes to the President, 1861-1865

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Copyright © I998 by the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University Paperback edition 2006 All fights reserved Printed in the United States of America 09 08 07 06 5 4 3 2 I Frontispiece: Lincoln (detail), Feb. 5, I865, the last time he posed in a photographer's studio and a week before his fifty-sixth and final birthday. The portrait was made in Washington by Alexander Gardner. Courtesy Library of Congress. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Lincoln mailbag: America writes to the president, 1861-1865' edited by Harold Holzer. p. cm. r. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865-Correspondence. 2. United States-History-Civil War, 1861-1865-Sources. 1. Holzer, Harold. E457.962 1998 973.7'092-dc21 97-42164 elP ISBN o-8093-2072-X (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN-I3: 978-0-8093-2685-3 (pbk. : aIle paper) ISBN-IO: o-8093-2685-X (pbk.: alk. paper) Printed on recycled paper. 0 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-I992.€l For Brian Lamb> America's Greatest Reader Will you permit me an humble individual to address a few words to you the Chief Magistrate of this Great Republic. - Poughkeepsie, New York citizen to Abraham Lincoln January 28, I864 ...