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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 to Ginery Twichell re: accepting hospital supplies for wounded soldiers

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07520 Author/Creator: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Letter signed Date: 1862/09/05 Pagination: 3 p. : envelope ; Height: 20 cm, Width: 12.6 cm Order a Copy

The supplies came from the Boston area. Accepted 2 weeks before Antietam.

Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. V 1861 - 1862,
p. 415 - 416.

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