Alfred W. Stern of Chicago recently purchased a famous letter by Lincoln, at a reputed price of $15,000. It is Lincoln's famous letter to Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker after appointing him commander of the Army of the Potomac. The letter gently upbraids Hooker for thwarting his predecessor, Gen. A.E. Burnside, and for saying that "both army and the government need a dictator." Lincoln told Maj. Gen. Hooker, among other things: "What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship." He closes with these words of advice: "And now beware of rashness - beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward, and give us victories."
While we do not have such amazing pieces of history from the Civil War, we do have these lovely souvenir glasses from Gettysburg in our store currently:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-sm-frosted-glass-Gettysburg-Shrine-Lincoln-Lee-/160320023896?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2553d16d58
http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-frosted-glass-Gettysburg-Shrine-Lincoln-Lee-/350174859941?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item51880c52a5
Interesting!
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