The Raab Collection announced today that it has acquired and is offering for sale an important collection of Civil War documents, a collection assembled in the middle of the 20th century, containing unpublished letters not offered for sale in generations. Among them:
– Battlefield letters of Grant and Sherman;
– Statements on the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln, including from General Sherman;
– A lengthy letter from Harriet Beecher Stowe showing the personal toll of the war and her role in it;
– Important telegrams relating the end of the Civil War, carried via flag of truce from Johnston to Sherman;
– An early legal document from Abraham Lincoln’s first law partnership, when he was 29 years old;
– Letters of other figures, among them Edwin Stanton to General Meade at Gettysburg, William Lloyd Garrison on slavery, Admiral Dahlgren on the sinking of a USS monitor, etc…
