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With John Wilkes Booth Still on the Loose and Lincoln's Body in the Capitol Rotunda, New President Andrew Johnson Rewards a Soldier for Heroism at the Battle of the Wilderness

With John Wilkes Booth Still on the Loose and Lincoln's Body in the Capitol Rotunda, New President Andrew Johnson Rewards a Soldier for Heroism at the Battle of the Wilderness by Andrew Johnson

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With John Wilkes Booth Still on the Loose and Lincoln's Body in the Capitol Rotunda, New President Andrew Johnson Rewards a Soldier for Heroism at the Battle of the Wilderness
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Andrew Johnson
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The Raab Collection (United States)
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20/04/1865. Documents signed in the first few days after Lincoln's assassination are very uncommon, this being by far the earliest we have seenThe Battle of the Wilderness was fought on May 5–7, 1864, during the Civil War. It was the first battle of Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. The fighting occurred in a wooded area near Locust Grove, Virginia, about 20 miles west of Fredericksburg. Both armies suffered heavy casualties, nearly 29,000 in total, a harbinger of a war of attrition by Grant against Lee's army and, eventually, against the Confederate capital, Richmond, Virginia.At 7:22 a.m. on April 15, President Lincoln breathed his last. Attendees smoothed the contracted muscles of Lincoln’s features, placed two coins over his eyes, and pulled a sheet up over his face. Famously, Secretary of War Stanton saluted the fallen President and uttered, “Now, he belongs to the ages.” Stanton further eulogized Lincoln with the apt observation, “There lies the most perfect ruler of men the world has ever seen.”Lincoln's public funeral service occurred on April 19 and the body lay in the Capitol Rotunda on April 20. At the same time, the government was printing wanted notices for the capture of the assassination conspirators, who remained at large.On May 6, 1864, George Clendenin, Jr. was seriously wounded in the Wilderness but refused to leave the field, continuing to fight.Document signed, April 20, 1865, signed by Johnson as president and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, just 5 days after the death of President Lincoln, the same day Lincoln's body lay in the Capitol Rotunda, appointing George Clendenin, Jr. a Major for ""gallant conduct in the Battle of the Wilderness.""Documents signed during the immediate post-assassination are very uncommon, this being our earliest ever.
SIGNED. The Wilder Quarter-Century Book. A Collection of Original Papers Dedicated to Professor Burt Green Wilder at the close of his twenty-fifth year of service in Cornell University (1868-1893) by some of his former students

SIGNED. The Wilder Quarter-Century Book. A Collection of Original Papers Dedicated to Professor Burt Green Wilder at the close of his twenty-fifth year of service in Cornell University (1868-1893) by some of his former students by Jordan, D.S., Comstock, A.B., Comstock, J.H., Corson, E.R., Howard, L.O., Smith, T., Krauss, W.C., Gage, S.P., Biggs, H.M., Branner, J.C., Moore, V.A., Hopkins, G.S., Fish, P.A., Dudley, W.R., Gage, S.H. and Roberts, M.J.

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SIGNED. The Wilder Quarter-Century Book. A Collection of Original Papers Dedicated to Professor Burt Green Wilder at the close of his twenty-fifth year of service in Cornell University (1868-1893) by some of his former students
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Jordan, D.S., Comstock, A.B., Comstock, J.H., Corson, E.R., Howard, L.O., Smith, T., Krauss, W.C., Gage, S.P., Biggs, H.M., Branner, J.C., Moore, V.A., Hopkins, G.S., Fish, P.A., Dudley, W.R., Gage, S.H. and Roberts, M.J.
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Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
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Ithaca, NY: Comstock Publishing Co., 1893. First edition. SIGNED--FIRST AMERICAN FESTSCHRIFT HONORS HARVARD ANATOMIST BG WILDER--COLLEAGUE OF LOUIS AGASSIZ AND ASA GRAY. 16x25.5 cm red cloth boards, covers blindstamped, spine gilt, corners bumped, vg, no dj. Ex-lib Harvard Medical School [withdrawn]. Frontispiece (portrait of Wilder on tissue paper, glued along top and bottom edges to blank leaf), vi, 493 pp; illus. Original cloth. Spine slightly discolored where label removed. Institutional bookplate on front pastedown (stamped "withdrawn"). Corners of covers slightly worn. Tear in one edge of tissue-paper frontispiece. Very Good. First Edition. SIGNED IN PENCIL BY BURT WILDER ON TISSUE-PAPER FRONTISPIECE. Includes a bibliography of Burt Wilder's publications. Contributors to this festschrift for Burt Wilder include: David Starr Jordan; Anna Botsford Comstock; John Henry Comstock; Eugene Rollin Corson; Leland O. Howard; Theobald Smith; William Christopher Krauss; Susanna Phelps Gage; Hermann Michael Biggs; John Casper Branner; Veranus Alva Moore; Grant Sherman Hopkins; Pierre Augustine Fish; William Russell Dudley; Simon Henry Gage; Milton Josiah Roberts. WIlder was a close friend of John Henry Comstock, who wrote in Wilder's obituary in Science May 22, 1925: "As an evidence of the high regard in which Dr. Wilder was held by his former pupils, some of them upon his completion of a quarter of a century of service in the university prepared and published a volume of original contributions to science, "as a testimonial of their appreciation of his unselfish devotion to the university and in grateful remembrance of the inspiration of his teaching and example." This volume was entitled "The Wilder Quarter-Century Book" and included original contributions to science from fifteen of his former pupils. This, so far as is known to the writer, was the first American adoption of the German plan of honoring a beloved professor by the publication of a Festschrift." BURT GREEN WILDER (1841 - 1925) was an American comparative anatomist. He graduated from Harvard (Lawrence Scientific School), 1862; medical department, 1866). During part of the Civil War he served as surgeon of the Fifty-fifth (Negro) Massachusetts Infantry. From 1867 to his retirement in 1910 he was professor of neurology and vertebrate zoölogy at Cornell. In 1885 he was president of the American Neurological Association and in 1898 of the Association of American Anatomists. While at Cornell, WIlder began what would become the Wilder Brain Collection. His own brain was removed from his corpse and added to the collection. Wilder corresponded with Prof. Louis Agassiz, Asa Gray, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., and Jeffries Wyman, with whom he worked at Harvard University as an assistant after receiving his M.D. degree there in 1866. He was a professor of anatomy, physiology, comparative neurology and vertebrate zoology at Cornell from 1867-1910, where he devoted special attention to human and animal brain mechanism experiments, and the nervous system. At the time of his retirement he had gathered between 1,600 and 2,000 brain specimens with completed data. (Currently, 70 of these specimens survive.)

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