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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 to Maj. John Dix

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00876 Author/Creator: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: June 24, 1863 Pagination: 1 p. ; 16 x 10 cm. Order a Copy

Written in pencil on mourning stationery, re: dispatch from Grant, Kirby Smith and Gen. Banks.

Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. VI 1862 - 1863,
p. 293.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Dix, John Adams, 1798-1879
Kirby Smith, Edmund, 1824-1893
Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894

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