Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 to William A. Hammond
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00547 Author/Creator: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Autograph endorsement signed Date: 04 June 1862 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; 20 x 13 cm Order a Copy
Asks United States Surgeon General William A. Hammond to address grievances of Mrs. Bradley, a nurse at Fort Monroe, Virginia. Written on recto is a letter by S. H. Sweetland to General John Ellis Wool, with note by Lieutenant Colonel D. Whipple, Chief of Staff at Ft. Monroe, dated 30 May 1862. Mrs. Bradley is possibly the Amy C. Bradley described in "Women's Work in the Civil War" (Philadelphia, 1867).
Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln, (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. V 1861 - 1862,
p. 259
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