Pittsfield, IL.
Friday, October 1, 1858.Pittsfield, IL.
In afternoon Lincoln is driven in wagon drawn by six black horses
from Ross home to town square, where he speaks for two hours.
ISLA—Statement of W. C. Dickson, 5 August 1928, Ms.
After meeting, Calvin Jackson, photographer, makes two ambrotypes of him.
Frederick H. Meserve, The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln (New York: privately printed, 1911), 46.
Tradition has it that Lincoln and J. K. Moore start for Naples, and
spend night at home of Aaron Tyler.
ISLA—Letter of E. S. Hoyt, 3 March 1929.