Lincoln Related - Rare "Lincoln" Broadside "Posters" The Colonel Matthew Rogers family had its first family reunion since the Civil War in Athens, Illinois. During the Civil War, part of the family were Union and part of the family were Confederates. Phil Wagner hosted a reunion in 1978. Lincoln borrowed books, picked up mail and visited the Colonel Rogers family home on many occasions. They donated a trunk filled with memorabilia from the family's days in Athens, Illinois. Phil Wagner, Bob Church and John Throsen drove to Centrallia, Kansas and picked up the materials. At the time, Phil Wagner was the Chairman of the board of the Long Nine Museum, which was housed in the Colonel Rogers General Store and Post Office on Main Street in Athens, Illinois. The trunk was given to the Long Nine Inc. who in turn donated the materials to the State of Illinois, with the Rogers Family being the honorees at the transfer of documents. Before the State of Illinois received the original items, Phil Wagner made negatives and positives of the four rare broadside posters.

Lincoln Related Items

The re-election of President Abraham Lincoln in 1864

The Colonel Matthew Rogers family had its first family reunion since the Civil War in Athens, Illinois. During the Civil War, part of the family were Union and part of the family were Confederates. Phil Wagner hosted a reunion in 1978. Lincoln borrowed books, picked up mail and visited the Colonel Rogers family home on many occasions. They donated a trunk filled with memorabilia from the family's days in Athens, Illinois. Phil Wagner, Bob Church and John Throsen drove to Centrallia, Kansas and picked up the materials. At the time, Phil Wagner was the Chairman of the board of the Long Nine Museum, which was housed in the Colonel Rogers General Store and Post Office on Main Street in Athens, Illinois. The trunk was given to the Long Nine Inc. who in turn donated the materials to the State of Illinois, with the Rogers Family being the honorees at the transfer of documents. Before the State of Illinois received the original items, Phil Wagner made negatives and positives of the four rare broadside posters.

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Subject: The re-election of President Abraham Lincoln in 1864

Description: Framed 20" x 24" broadside poster. Positive. It reads: A GRAND ("the union must and shall be preserved" carried by an eagle with this quotation on ribbon in his mouth) MASS MEETING! Of the unconditional union citizens of Illinois! Will Be Held at SPRINGFIELD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1864. The following distinguished Statesmen and Orators and many others, are invited Gov's Andrew Johnson, John Brough, Dennison, Richard Yates, Morton, Joseph A. Wright, G. A. Koerner & Gov. Stone. Gen=s I. N. Haynie, John F. Farnsworth, John M. Palmer and Col. Robert Ingersoll, Hon's Schuyler Colfax, James R. Doolittle, Wm. A. Howard, Richard Oglesby, E. B. Washburen, B. C. Cook, John Wentworth, Charles D. Drake, Z. Chandler, J. C. Sloan, Henry S. Lane, Lyman Trumbull & Thompson.

This is intended to be the Grand Mass Meeting of the present Campaign and Union Citizens from all parts of the State are earnestly invited to attend. There will be room for all! Come by railroad! Come in wagons! Come on horseback! Come on foot and let there be such a rally as the North-West has never witnessed for the support of our Government against the combined opposition of rebels in arms and traiters at home. BY ORDER OF THE STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE, THOS. J. TURNER, Chairman, JAMES P. ROOT, Secretary.

Positive: 20" x 24" 50.00

Print: 8 1/2" x 11" 10.00