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- GLC#
- GLC06343.234-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1884/11/21
- Author/Creator
- Lincoln, Robert T., 1843-1926
- Title
- to J.Q.A. Ward.
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 26.3 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
- Sub-Era
- The Gilded Age
"War Department" stationary. Secretary of War Lincoln writes discussing the erection and location of a proposed memorial statue to President James Garfield in Washington, D.C. The site selected was "the circle at the foot of the Capitol grounds situate at the intersection of 1st Street and Maryland Avenue, South West..."
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