Civil War Footprints

Their Civil War letters share new details about the sweet friendship of Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth L. C. Dixon; retraced from their first days in Washington until their last.

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Aug 14, 2021

Lincoln's Last Breath

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  On April 15, 1865 at 7:22 am, President Lincoln took his last breath. At that moment, a woman, Elizabeth L.C. Dixon was holding Mary Linc...
Jul 1, 2021

The most quoted piece of Lincoln writing

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Feb 8, 2021

Feb 8, 1846 Diary Excerpts

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Diary of Elizabeth Lord Cogswell Dixon 1845-1847 was published in White House History, Issue 33. This is her entry for Feb 8, 1846.  At the ...
Jun 3, 2015

Lincoln 150 honored

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April 14-15 2015 150 years after Elizabeth L.C. Dixon witnessed Lincoln's death To commemorate the 150 year anniversary of th...
Jul 21, 2014

Masterpiece by Lincoln in Connecticut

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Discovered at the Wadsworth Atheneum were pages from American history On a visit to Hartford Connecticut I stopped in to see an ite...
May 2, 2014

1863 White House Dinner with Tom Thumb

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    Invitation sent to Elizabeth LC Dixon From the President and Mrs. Lincoln  It was Dixon family legend that during the Civi...
Mar 26, 2014

1864 Influence of Mrs. Dixon

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Letter From Lincoln to Gen. Grant: Executive Mansion Washington, March 29, 1864 LIEUTENANT-GENERAL GRANT, Army of the Potomac:  Capta...
Dec 20, 2013

Lincoln's Paramount object was to save the Union

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T he  first time in 150 years President Lincoln's Letter to  Horace Greeley Museum Archival Prints of the original letter p...
Oct 28, 2013

Published Diary of Elizabeth L. C. Dixon 1845-1847

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The complete transcription of  Diary of Elizabeth L. C. Dixon was published in  White   House   History , Issue 33, by White House ...
Oct 24, 2013

Relic From Mary Lincoln

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To Elizabeth Dixon in gratitude from family of Mary Todd Lincoln President Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln's friendship with Eli...
Aug 22, 2012

August 22, 1862 Lincoln's Letter to Horace Greeley: Editing Mr. Lincoln

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On August 22, 1862 President Lincoln wrote a public letter to Horace Greeley and gave it to  National Intelligencer editor, James Clarke We...
Jan 1, 2012

1862 Lincolns Proclamation Draft Preserved

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Lincoln's Proclamation Written July 25th, 1862 The original manuscript of President Lincoln's Proclamation, written July 2...
Jul 27, 2011

27 Jul 1861 Lincoln Letter to MD Congressmen

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Dixon- Welling F amily Papers .    Within the collections at the  Connecticut Historical Society are the  Dixon-Welling Family Papers c...
Jul 20, 2011

1861 July 20 Sen. Dixon of CT witnesses Bull Run

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Saturday, July 20, 1861   Sec. Simon Cameron returns from Gen. McDowell's  headquarters at Manassas, Va., and reports orally to P...
Dec 31, 2010

1860 National Intelligencer: JC Welling editor

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In 1860, Hon. William Seaton, surviving editor of the National Intelligencer announced James C. Welling as editor ...
Dec 1, 2010

Dixon - Welling Life Before and After

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Rose-Mount For a glimpse back in time and estate of the family of Sen. James Dixon in Hartford  head to Hartford, Connect...
Oct 2, 2010

Lost Footprints Found

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Imagine you discovered Civil War relics that confirmed someone in your family witnessed the death of President Lincoln. This is precisely wh...
Oct 1, 2010

Begin at the End

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In the 1950's the New York Times published text of a letter, discovered in a New Jersey attic, by a woman giving her eyewitness acc...
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