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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC09162 |
| From Archive Folder | Unassociated Civil War Documents 1864 |
| Title | John A. B. Dahlgren to Benjamin French thanking him for kind words about Ulric Dahlgren and transmitting a poem |
| Date | 18 March 1864 |
| Author | Dahlgren, John Adolphus Bernard (1809-1870) |
| Recipient | French, Benjamin |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | "Accept my grateful thanks for your note and the lines to the memory of my beloved son...when he undertook the mission of freedom to the weary captives who pined in the Rebel dungeons of Richmond, he did it with a fullness of purpose that know no limit; the danger that lay in the way never palsied his resolve for an instant...His name should stand in living light before the young men of our land and inspire their hearts with the same unselfish resolution to carry the glorious banner of the Union over the ruins of a causeless Rebellion." Includes a poem inspired by Ulric Dahlgren's death, later published in John Dahlgren's 1872 biography of his son, Memoir of Ulric Dahlgren. Also a carte-de-visit of Colonel Ulric Dahlgren, inscribed by John Dahlgren. Both the poem and the carte-de-visite are tipped in and adhered. |
| Subjects | Poetry Prisoner of War Military History Death Navy Union Forces Confederate States of America Children and Family |
| People | Dahlgren, John Adolphus Bernard (1809-1870) Dahlgren, Ulric (1842-1864) French, Benjamin B. (Benjamin Brown) (1800-1870) |
| Place written | Washington, D.C. |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Children & Family; Arts & Literature |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |