Lincoln's Pardon Letter

The "Canadian Connection" portion of Lincoln North: a virtual exhibit at McGill University in Montreal, Canada [Lincoln connection]

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Description of above item (small part of the document shown):

Petition to Release Confederate Prisoners
"During the war Lincoln was besieged by petitioners for the release of confederate prisoners, many of whom had enlisted in the Confederate army when too young to know what they were doing."

Lincoln Artifact At McGill University

The "Canadian Connection" portion of Lincoln North: a virtual exhibit at McGill University in Montreal, Canada [Lincoln connection]

Adam Everly's Powder Horn

The powder horn was featured in the Greene County History newsletter.

"Adam Everly was born to German immigrants Johann Leonhard Everly and Eva Maria Beckenbach of Frederick County Maryland in 1750. The horn came into Adam’s possession in his adulthood and was used in the war."  [link added]

Commission Signed By Alexander Cameron

University of Georgia's Special Collections libraries, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842:

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Commission for a gorget chief, 1781
Description: This is a commission, dated March 3, 1781, appointing Eacheopaye (also Eacheepaye), a Choctaw Indian, as a gorget chief for the town of Bugtuclo (or Bugootoloo)...commission is signed by Alexander Cameron... .
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Recovered Steel - World Trade Center

Jim's Photo

On display at the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Election Day

I SOUGHT MY VOTE

Artifact at the Selma To Montgomery Trail Interpretive Center

Westward Ho! Wagon

At the Putnam House Museum in Marietta, Ohio, a wagon:

Sword Stolen From Lincoln's Tomb

From a news report: Vandals Strike Lincoln's Tomb, Steal Copper Sword.  We visited Lincoln's Tomb in September of 2008 and Jim took some pictures.

Was this the stolen sword?

Bowie Knife Pistol On Exhibit

Exhibited at the 45th Infantry Division Museum in Oklahoma City:

ELGIN U.S. NAVAL CUTLASS PISTOL

.54 Caliber

Serial #50 of 150 manufactured by C. B. Allen.  Only 12 exist presently.  They were made specifically for the Wilkes' South Sea Exploring Expedition of 1837.

The Library of Congress has the Charles Wilkes' papers, described as:

Official and family correspondence, journals and diaries, legal and financial papers, autobiography and other writings, and scientific notebooks relating to Wilkes's command of an expedition (1838-1842) to the Antarctic, Hawaii and various other Pacific islands, and the northwest coast of the United States; his capture of J. M. Mason and John Slidell in the Trent affair (1861); and his command of the James River Flotilla and West India Squadron during the Civil War. Includes legal and business papers of the Wilkes family in England.

More about this Bowie Knife Pistol here.