United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

Scope and Contents A scrapbook on Abraham Lincoln and other major figures of the Civil War, containing materials written and compiled by the Honorable Michael Twomey (Union soldier and later mayor of Windsor, Ontario) and presumably a descendent or acquaintance of the same. The contents are mostly newspaper clippings from papers across the United States dated between the 1860s and the 1930s, copied excerpts from Twomey's war diary, several photographs of Twomey including his funeral card, and a signed document...