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MEXICAN WAR VET. LAND GRANT ABRAHAM LINCOLN, CIVIL WAR
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For sale is a Land Grant Document assigned to a Jose Alejo Garcia, private, Captain in Luna's Company with the New Mexico Volunteers, War with Mexico is granted 160 acres of land subject to sale at Detroit Michigan. The tract is called out as being located in township eighteen north and thirteen east, district of lands at Detroit, MI. It goes on to read that the Alsigned? or assigned by Jose Alejo Garcia to John McGraw and to his heirs the tract of land above described. Also the document has two signatures of Abraham Lincoln, both I believe to be from Lincoln's secretary W. Stoddard.(William O Stoddard). however the first Lincoln signature could be authentic- InTestimony Tof I, Abraham Lincoln...I have received mixed opinions on this, mostly I am thinking that this was Stoddard's. I have included a brief piece on who Stoddard was and how he served in the White House during the American Civil War with President Lincoln. Please email me if you have questions,. Good Luck and Happy bidding!
William O. Stoddard served as a minor clerk in the Lincoln White House, occasionally performing useful services for the President, though his main job was signing land office deeds. He worked in the nineteenth-century equivalent of the White House mailroom, which at the time was located near the Oval Office and the private rooms of Lincoln's personal secretaries, John Hay and John G. Nicolay. Stoddard's position enabled him to keenly observe and then wonderfully describe the dignitaries, officers, hayseeds, and rabble of office seekers moving in and out of the administrative offices. In 1890 Stoddard published his accounts of those days in a book entitled Inside the White House in War Times . The book was a collection of reminiscences rather than first-hand accounts. However, in the new edition Michael Burlingame includes over a dozen, never-before-published "sketches" written in 1866 to Charles G. Halpine, editor of the New York Citizen . This short collection proves to be a valuable preface to Burlingame's forthcoming edition of Stoddard's anonymous Civil War writings (also from University of Nebraska Press). Prior to his White House service Stoddard worked as a newspaper editor in West Urbana, Illinois. He even claimed to be one of the first editors to promote Lincoln as a presidential contender. His urban values placed Stoddard out of touch with the mainly rural people who came to see the President and contributed to a snobbish demeanor. 
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