lincoln FRIENDS LISTING:

 

Names of People to check on letters or telegraphs to/or/from Abraham Lincoln

Check Mr. Lincoln's Friends (and maybe not really friends) for biographical information)

Also, check the genealogical listing of Lincoln's relatives to figure out their relationship to Abraham


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WASHINGTON AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS DURING THE WAR & WASHINGTON FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY MILITARY OFFICIALS AND OFFICERS
John J. Hall (step-nephew of Abraham) Orlando Bell Finklin (Coles lawyer and political advisor) Julia Taft (friend of family) General George McClellen
Augustus Chapman (Harriet Hanks husband) William Chambers (political friend, introduced Abe at Debate) Senator Stephen Douglas (from Illinois, Democrat opponent to Abraham in elections) General Ulysses S. Grant
Judge David Davis (8th Circuit Illinois judge) Reuben Moore (married to Sarah Bush Lincoln) Allan Pinkerton (spy and detective for the Union Army) General William T. Sherman
Usher Linder (Charleston lawyer, friend and opposing party) Dennis Friend Hanks (2nd cousin of Abraham) Secretary Edwin Stanton (War) General George Meade
Thomas Marshall (Charleston lawyer and political advisor) James Taylor Cunningham (Coles friend and worker for the President-confidential assignments) Secretary William Seward (State) General Philip Sheridan
Harriet Chapman (Abraham's cousin) Mary Lincoln  (Abraham's wife) Vice President Andrew Johnson General Edward Baker
Robert Lincoln (oldest son of Abraham) John Davis Johnston (step-brother of Abraham) Frederick Douglass (abolitionist and advisor to President Lincoln) General Benjamin Butler
William (Billy) Herndon (last law partner of Abraham) Squire Hall (Sarah Bush's son-in-law                                 Edward Bates (Attorney General) Admiral David Farragut
Lyman Trumbull   Secretary Salmon P. Chase (Treasury) General Winfield Scott
Thomas Marshall (Charleston lawyer and political advisor to Abraham)