Lincoln's mail included advice, warnings and a call to shoot deserters
A disgraced Army officer begged to be let out of Sing Sing prison. A Navy officer wanted to get married. A general sent a list of privates who were to be shot for desertion.
A 65-year-old New York man addressed the president as “Father Abraham” and offered to serve in the Army without pay. A friend would serve, too. “We have Faith in God and dry Powder,” the writer said.
An Italian opera singer expressed anger that the president had not replied to her: “How [can] a Great Personnage like your Excellency surrounded of glory and ornamented of fine education … not answer a Lady letters?”
Complaints, advice, congratulations, introductions, pleas, job requests and military reports poured into Abraham Lincoln’s mailbox before and during his presidency.
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