An engraved invitation to Lincoln's second inaugural ball, filled out with the name of Mrs. Hugh McCulloch, the wife of Lincoln’s Comptroller of Currency (and later Secretary of the Treasury), accompanied by the original envelope addressed to Hugh McCulloch. Portraits of Lincoln and Andrew Johnson appear above a list...
Broadside detailing the procession and order of events to take place in the city of Lansing, Michigan, on the day of the funeral of the late President Lincoln. The text opens with a proclamation by the Mayor of Lansing, Dr. Ira H. Bartholomew, who relates that the funeral held...
![By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation. [proclamation title] Circular No. 36. Department of State, Washington, 9th May, 1863 [letter of transmittal title]. Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward.](/pictures/thumb/4626_1.jpg?v=1527632104)
Lincoln’s Proclamation stipulating the terms of military conscription for non-naturalized immigrants during the Civil War and ahead of the first federal draft in America. Neither the Union or Confederacy depended on the draft to populate their armies at the outset of the Civil War due to high volumes of...
A broadside printing of Lincoln’s parting words to the people of Springfield, Illinois, spoken as he was departing for Washington, D. C. On February 11, 1861, as Lincoln was preparing to board a train at the Great Western Railroad depot in Springfield, a crowd gathered to see him off. He...
![[Galley Proof of an Anti-Grant Speech Delivered by General John A. McClernand before the Great Citizen’s Convention at Springfield, Illinois, January 8th, 1876]. John A. McClernand.](/pictures/thumb/2950_1.jpg?v=1525206064)
Galley proof of a rousing indictment of the Grant Administration delivered at a convention in Abraham Lincoln’s hometown by John McClernand, a Civil War general and Grant’s former subordinate. McClernand’s oration assails Grant’s use of the military as part of reconstruction, specifically citing the installation of William Pitt Kellogg...
A rare circular issued by Secretary of State William H. Seward during the Civil War, transmitting to U.S. Consuls the “stringent restrictions” imposed upon U.S. vessels by the Secretary of the Treasury. These restrictions sought to prevent articles of contraband from reaching Southern ports and ultimately the Confederate Army...