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John Basil Turchin, controversial Union Civil War officer, was born Ivan Vasilyevich Turchaninov in Russia in 1822, and Americanized his name after he immigrated to the United States in 1856.Serving as a regimental, division, and brigade commander in…

James Bachelder signs a letter written on Office of the Commissioner of Public Buildings stationery to B.B. French requesting French to call for a sitting as early as convenient. Bachelder has placed his painting "The last hours of Lincoln" in room…