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    Letters to Joseph Holt

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    The collection contains correspondence and other documents of Joseph Holt. Included are items relating to American Civil War law and politics; Kentucky at the outbreak of the Civil War; military law and the office of judge advocate general; the trial of Lincoln's assassins including Mary Surratt; Holt's personal and family life; the U.S. Patent Office; and U.S. Post Office. Other correspondents include Gustave Beauregard, Horace Greeley, Winfield Scott, James A. Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, and Edwin Stanton. There is also a copy of a letter by Holt to Abraham Lincoln where he refused the position of attorney general (1864 November 5).

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    Joseph Holt papers

    Manuscripts

    The collection contains correspondence and other documents of Joseph Holt. Included are items relating to American Civil War law and politics; Kentucky at the outbreak of the Civil War; military law and the office of judge advocate general; the trial of Lincoln's assassins including Mary Surratt; Holt's personal and family life; the U.S. Patent Office; and U.S. Post Office. Other correspondents include Gustave Beauregard, Horace Greeley, Winfield Scott, James A. Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, and Edwin Stanton. There is also a copy of a letter by Holt to Abraham Lincoln where he refused the position of attorney general (1864 November 5).

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    Joseph Holt letters to friends and family

    Manuscripts

    The collection contains correspondence and other documents of Joseph Holt. Included are items relating to American Civil War law and politics; Kentucky at the outbreak of the Civil War; military law and the office of judge advocate general; the trial of Lincoln's assassins including Mary Surratt; Holt's personal and family life; the U.S. Patent Office; and U.S. Post Office. Other correspondents include Gustave Beauregard, Horace Greeley, Winfield Scott, James A. Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, and Edwin Stanton. There is also a copy of a letter by Holt to Abraham Lincoln where he refused the position of attorney general (1864 November 5).

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    Letters and other items by others

    Manuscripts

    The collection contains correspondence and other documents of Joseph Holt. Included are items relating to American Civil War law and politics; Kentucky at the outbreak of the Civil War; military law and the office of judge advocate general; the trial of Lincoln's assassins including Mary Surratt; Holt's personal and family life; the U.S. Patent Office; and U.S. Post Office. Other correspondents include Gustave Beauregard, Horace Greeley, Winfield Scott, James A. Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, William T. Sherman, and Edwin Stanton. There is also a copy of a letter by Holt to Abraham Lincoln where he refused the position of attorney general (1864 November 5).

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    Manuscripts

    Includes Ulysses S. Grant autograph letter signed to Joesph Holt, 1865 May 11; Ulysses S. and Julia Dent Grant letter invitation to Joseph Holt, ? September 24; Ulysses S. and Julia Dent Grant printed invitation to Joseph Holt, 1867 January?. Includes the following six items from James A. Garfield to Jospeh Holt: letter with envelope, 1864 February 4; autograph letter signed with franked envelope, 1866 April 16; letter signed, 1867 December 12; autograph letter signed with franked envelope, 1868 July 13; autograph letter signed with franked envelope, 1868 July 28; autograph letter signed with franked envelope, 1871 December 14.

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