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- GLC#
- GLC01969
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- 1863
- Author/Creator
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Title
- The letters of President Lincoln on questions of national policy.
- Place Written
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 24 p. : Height: 20 cm, Width: 12 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Reprint of six letters by Lincoln: June 13, 1863, to an Albany, New York Committee, discussing his interpretation of the writ of habeas corpus in the Vallandigham case; February 3, 1862 and October 13, 1862, to General George McClellan on the management of the war; August 22, 1862, to Horace Greeley concerning amnesty for southerners; August 7, 1863, to New York mayor Horatio Seymour regarding the New York City draft riots and the constitutionality of the Conscription Act; August 26, 1863, to the Springfield, Illinois and Syracuse Conventions, defending the Emancipation Proclamation. Handwritten on cover: "Gift of [H.?] [Miller ?]" Printed by Benjamin B. Russell. With advertisements inside front and back cover.
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