President-Elect Lincoln Gets Back-Channel Update from Fort Sumter
Captain Abner Doubleday, in Fort Sumter during the perilous winter of 1860-1861, wrote his brother Ulysses in New York about disagreements with his commanding officer, Major Robert Anderson. Ulysses forwarded some of these letters to President-Elect Lincoln in Springfield, who was closely monitoring the situation in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. The shots fired there three months later began the Civil War.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Autograph Letter Signed, to Ulysses Doubleday, January 24, 1861, Springfield, Illinois.? 1 p., 4.75” x 7.75”. Archivally framed 28" x 26”.