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LINCOLN, Abraham. Autograph letter signed ("A. Lincoln"), as President, to unidentified, 22 June 1863. 1 page, 8vo, with a calligraphic heading "One Flag & Union" along top edge. Docketed on verso by G. A. Le Russy (?) and by James A. Hardie, A.A.G.
LINCOLN MEETS WITH A BRAVE, MOTHER-DAUGHTER TEAM OF BATTLE FIELD NURSES
"This morning Mrs. Moore and her daughter Miss Jane B. Moore, both noted for their philanthropic labor among our sick and wounded soldiers, have done me the honor of a call, and for which I am grateful." Both mother and daughter were battlefield nurses, and exposed themselves to frontline fire. In a 1910 letter, when she was now Jane B. Moore Bristor, she wrote: "As I have entered my seventieth year and am an invalid from exposure and wounds received upon the battle fields of the Rebellion where with my mother I worked to relieve the wounded, I am putting my affairs in order to be ready for the great summons." She received a pension for her war service in the 1890's. She was an activist on behalf of temperance and woman's suffrage, and was evidently a shrewd business woman. In 1910 she boasted that "I have made in twenty years more than three times what was left me by my mother, besides giving away about thirty thousand dollars..." Her disgruntled son tried to use her wounds against her. He sued--unsuccessfully--to block her plans for leaving the bulk of her estate to the Presbyterian Church and its overseas missions, alleging that the effects of her war injuries, coupled with her advanced age, left her mentally incompetent. Published in Basler, First Supplement 10:192.
LINCOLN MEETS WITH A BRAVE, MOTHER-DAUGHTER TEAM OF BATTLE FIELD NURSES
"This morning Mrs. Moore and her daughter Miss Jane B. Moore, both noted for their philanthropic labor among our sick and wounded soldiers, have done me the honor of a call, and for which I am grateful." Both mother and daughter were battlefield nurses, and exposed themselves to frontline fire. In a 1910 letter, when she was now Jane B. Moore Bristor, she wrote: "As I have entered my seventieth year and am an invalid from exposure and wounds received upon the battle fields of the Rebellion where with my mother I worked to relieve the wounded, I am putting my affairs in order to be ready for the great summons." She received a pension for her war service in the 1890's. She was an activist on behalf of temperance and woman's suffrage, and was evidently a shrewd business woman. In 1910 she boasted that "I have made in twenty years more than three times what was left me by my mother, besides giving away about thirty thousand dollars..." Her disgruntled son tried to use her wounds against her. He sued--unsuccessfully--to block her plans for leaving the bulk of her estate to the Presbyterian Church and its overseas missions, alleging that the effects of her war injuries, coupled with her advanced age, left her mentally incompetent. Published in Basler, First Supplement 10:192.