Identifier: tributestoabrahasslinc (find matches)
Title: Tributes to Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents Presidents
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Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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alongside the floralofferings of the President and the Sons ofThe Confederacy. At his side was Ulysses S. Grant, III, avice-commander of the Loyal Legion andgrandson of the Civil War general and President. It was his idea to bring the Sonsof The Confederacy into the ceremonies. Virden, grandson of a private who rose tocolonel in the Second Arkansas Cavalryduring the war, said, We decided that Mr.Lincoln was a great deal more than anIllinois Republican. Actually we Southerners look on Lin-coln as a great American, he told reporters.He was for giving us a magnanimouspeace. It was after a madman shot him that thereally wild men took over, he said, aband led by Thaddeus Stephens who was madat us because we burned his mill up inPennsylvania. Then the Reconstruction wasclamped on us—and that was a viciousthing. Virden and Neill Bohlinger, Little Rock,Ark., national commander of The Sons,agreed that, ^e got whipped fair, and,After all, Mr. Lincoln was as much on ourside as he was against.
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SOUTH HONORS LINCOLN . . . Breaking almost acentury of tradition, the South joined the .Vorth inobservance of Lincolns Birthday yesterday. Here Col.John Virden, left, representing the Sons of the Confederacy,shakes hands with Ulysses S. Grant, III, grandson of theCivil War general, in front of the Lincoln statue in Wash-ington. Colonel Virden carries a magnolia wreath bearingminiature Confederate flags. Story on Page 12. Hardin County Enterprise, Elizabethtown, Ky. Feb. 12, 1968 Confederate States Still DontCelebrate Lincolns Birthday By ARLEEN ABRAHAMS Associated Press Writer This is the South, son, re-plied John Wessels, aide to thegovernor of Virginia when ask-ed if Virginia celebrates Feb.12 — Abraham Lincolns birth-day — as a legal holiday. No, Virginia does not observethe birthday of the 16th Presi-dent of the United States, theman who emancipated theslaves and guided the Unionduring the harrowing days of jthe Civil War. Neither does Alabama, Ar-;Kansas, Florida, Georgia, Lotributestoabrahasslinc

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