Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) to Andrew H. Foote, Telegram re: naval support for Grant's Tennessee campaign
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04702.01 Author/Creator: Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Place Written: [Washington] Type: Autograph letter Date: 1862/01/23 Pagination: 1 p. 12.7 x 20 cm Order a Copy
Basler 5: 108 (Footnote reprints GLC 4702.02, cover letter by Wise accompanying Lincoln's telegram). Lincoln writes in the third-person: "The President wishes the rafts with their 13 inch mortars and all appointments to be ready for use at the earliest possible moment. What can be done to advance this? What is lacking? What is being done, so far as you know? Telegraph us every day, showing the progress, or lack of progress in this matter." Annotated and dated by Wise 3.15 P.M.
Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. V 1861 - 1862,
p. 108 - 109.
Notes: Basler 5: 108. Wise's telegram follows.
The President wishes the rafts with them 13 inch mortars and all appointments to be ready for use at the earliest possible moment. What can we do here to advance this? What is lacking? What is being done so far as you know? Telegraph us every day, showing the progress, or lack of progress in this matter.
Telegraphic dispatch written by President Lincoln for Flag officer Foote and sent by
|23 Jan. 1862 H.A. Wise.
|3.15 P.M. U.S.N.
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