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Mar 26, 2014

1864 Influence of Mrs. Dixon

Letter From Lincoln to Gen. Grant:

Executive Mansion
Washington, March 29, 1864
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL GRANT, Army of the Potomac: Captain Kinney, of whom I spoke to you as desiring to go on your staff, is now in your camp, in company with Mrs. Senator Dixon. Mrs. Grant and I, and some others, agreed last night that I should, by this dispatch, kindly call your attention to Captain Kinney.   A. LINCOLN.
 Mrs. ELC Dixon visits nephews
Ernest L. Kinney, Nathaniel C. Kinney
General Grant replied on the same day:
Your dispatch suggesting Capt. Kinney for a staff appointment just recd. I would be glad to accommodate Capt Kinney but in the selection of staff I do not want any one whom I do not personally know to be qualified for the position assigned them.' 
Captain Nathaniel Cogswell Kinney did not get the promotion, as Mrs. Dixon and her sister, Mary C. Kinney had hoped.  From CW Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 7. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -    ‘Captain Kinney has not been positively identified. Mrs. Dixon was presumably the wife of James Dixon.’