To Address You as My Friend: African Americans’ Letters to Abraham Lincoln (Johnathan W. White - DLM) nature Nicholas Codori bought the farm

Nicholas Codori bought the farm in 1854 and began improving it immediately

Hancock and Armistead crossed paths at a fort in Indian Territory before the Mexican War and then served together in California

The armies and their leaders

Prime Minister Palmerston decided that Great Britain would be no match for a Union armada that could have seized British possessions throughout the Western Hemisphere

To Address You as My Friend: African Americans’ Letters to Abraham Lincoln (Johnathan W. White - DLM) nature Nicholas Codori bought the farmTo Address You as My Friend: African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln by Jonathan W. White (Editor), Edna Greene Medford (Foreword) Many African Americans of the Civil War era felt a personal connection to Abraham Lincoln. For the first time in their lives, an occupant of the White House seemed concerned about the welfare of their race. Indeed, despite the tremendous injustice and discrimination that they faced, African Americans now had