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Browsing named entities in a specific section of Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones). Search the whole document.
Found 57 total hits in 21 results.
Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.20
Springfield, Mo. (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.20
Springfield (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.20
Virginia (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.20
West Point (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.20
General George E. Pickett.
[from the Richmond Dispatch. May 3; 1896.] his appointment to West Point—a letter from his widow.
A Richmond friend of Mrs. General Pickett recently wrote to her, making an inquiry as to how her husband received his cadetship appointment.
She answered that General Pickett was appointed by Congressman John G. Stuart, of the Third Illinois District, and she explained that Mr. Lincoln induced Stuart to make the appointment.
Mr. Lincoln was then associated in the practice of the law with young Pickett's uncle, Mr. Andrew Johnston, who was later of the firm of Johnston, Boulware and Williams, of Richmond.
Mr. Johnston, who has been dead for a number of years, was a great and good man, and was highly esteemed by the President, who, it is said, desired him to become Governor of this State, to guide it in its return to the Union.
After giving her friend the information sought, Mrs. Pickett goes on to say:
I have before me a letter from Mr. Lincoln
Eustace Williams (search for this): chapter 1.20
William A. Jenkins (search for this): chapter 1.20
John G. Stuart (search for this): chapter 1.20
Boulware (search for this): chapter 1.20
La Salle Corbell Pickett (search for this): chapter 1.20