Additional Note

• A. Recommendations and applications for office appointments under Lincoln, addressed to Lamon as intermediary
• B. Lamon's Brigade - a regiment of loyal Virginians recruited & equipped by Lamon as Colonel
• C. Abolitionist senators attack on Lamon in 1862
• D. Office correspondence

• 1. U. S. Marshall of the District of Columbia, 1861 - 65.
• 2. Lamon's claims practice after the War

• E. Personal correspondence
• 1. Hardships of relatives and friends living in the loyal border counties of Virginia, 1861 - 65.
• 2. News and political gossip of cronies in Illinois
• 3. Financial transactions

• a. Speculation during the War
• b. Dealings in Colorado mining properties

• 4. Lamon's efforts to secure a government appointment
• a. Republican candidate for West Virginia in the 45th Congress.
• b. Applications for the office of Governor or Judge in the West, or a counsular appointment abroad

• F. Cotton traffic and blockads running, 1864 - 65

• G. Lincoln biographies
• 1. Correspondence with Herndon, and purchase of his records
• 2. Controversy over Lamon's Life of Lincoln, published in 1872.
• 3. Preparation of the second volume, never published
• 4. Syndicated newspaper articles