LINCOLN, Mary Todd (1818-1882). Autograph letter signed ("Mary Lincoln") to Brig. Gen. Ramsey, Soldier's Home, Saturday Morning, 29 July [1864]. 3 pages, 8vo, mourning stationery with Old English "L" printed at top, tipped to a larger sheet . THE LINCOLNS EMBARK FOR FORTRESS MONROE TO MEET WITH GENERAL GRANT First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln invites General George D. Ramsey to take one of the few remaining spaces on the President's boat that will take the Lincolns and their party to Fortress Monroe, where the President will meet with General Ulysses Grant and plot the next moves of the Union army. "Mr. L., & myself," she writes, "with two or three friends, contemplate leaving for Fortress Monroe today, about three or four o'clock. It will afford us great pleasure to have you join our party, as we return on Monday morning. I mention this last circumstance, knowing that your hours are very much occupied. It would have been a great pleasure to have extended an invitation to Mrs. & Miss Ramsey, yet as the boat & its accommodations are very small & the President has already several gentlemen friends to accompany him, I am sure you will understand it. Mr. L. bids me say to you, that he hopes to have you with us." Lincoln departed Washington on Saturday afternoon and arrived at Fortress Monroe early on Sunday morning for a scheduled 10 o'clock session with Grant. The President and Grant met aboard the U. S. S. Baltimore from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m., when Lincoln started back to Washington. Grant sensed the President's frustration with the slow progress on the Petersburg front, and the Commander-in-Chief wanted some new stroke. So on 5 August he met with the President again to propose the appointment of Phil Sheridan as commanding general of the new Army of the Shenandoah. Ramsey, who commanded the Washington Arsenal and was Chief of Ordinance for the U. S. Artillery until his retirement in September 1864, forwarded this letter to Stanton with an endorsement: "General Ramsay's compliments to the Secretary and begs if he may be permitted to accept the invitation within." (Mrs. Lincoln erred in noting the date since the 29th of July was a Friday.)
LINCOLN, Mary Todd (1818-1882). Autograph letter signed ("Mary Lincoln") to Brig. Gen. Ramsey, Soldier's Home, Saturday Morning, 29 July [1864]. 3 pages, 8vo, mourning stationery with Old English "L" printed at top, tipped to a larger sheet . THE LINCOLNS EMBARK FOR FORTRESS MONROE TO MEET WITH GENERAL GRANT First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln invites General George D. Ramsey to take one of the few remaining spaces on the President's boat that will take the Lincolns and their party to Fortress Monroe, where the President will meet with General Ulysses Grant and plot the next moves of the Union army. "Mr. L., & myself," she writes, "with two or three friends, contemplate leaving for Fortress Monroe today, about three or four o'clock. It will afford us great pleasure to have you join our party, as we return on Monday morning. I mention this last circumstance, knowing that your hours are very much occupied. It would have been a great pleasure to have extended an invitation to Mrs. & Miss Ramsey, yet as the boat & its accommodations are very small & the President has already several gentlemen friends to accompany him, I am sure you will understand it. Mr. L. bids me say to you, that he hopes to have you with us." Lincoln departed Washington on Saturday afternoon and arrived at Fortress Monroe early on Sunday morning for a scheduled 10 o'clock session with Grant. The President and Grant met aboard the U. S. S. Baltimore from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m., when Lincoln started back to Washington. Grant sensed the President's frustration with the slow progress on the Petersburg front, and the Commander-in-Chief wanted some new stroke. So on 5 August he met with the President again to propose the appointment of Phil Sheridan as commanding general of the new Army of the Shenandoah. Ramsey, who commanded the Washington Arsenal and was Chief of Ordinance for the U. S. Artillery until his retirement in September 1864, forwarded this letter to Stanton with an endorsement: "General Ramsay's compliments to the Secretary and begs if he may be permitted to accept the invitation within." (Mrs. Lincoln erred in noting the date since the 29th of July was a Friday.)
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