LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President. Printed check accomplished and signed ("A.Lincoln"), Washington, D.C., 7 July 1862. 1 page, oblong, 66 x 195mm. (2 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.), clean slit cancellations neatly repaired (crossing signature without loss), framed with a Confederate bond for $100.00 in Confederate currency and a $10.00 Confederate bill. An attractive check printed in black ink in several typefaces, with a decorative border and an engraving of Riggs & Co.(by Hatch & Co.). President Lincoln orders payment of $20.00 to his personal secretary, John Hay, "for self." Unexamined out of frame.

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LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President. Printed check accomplished and signed ("A.Lincoln"), Washington, D.C., 7 July 1862. 1 page, oblong, 66 x 195mm. (2 3/4 x 7 3/4 in.), clean slit cancellations neatly repaired (crossing signature without loss), framed with a Confederate bond for $100.00 in Confederate currency and a $10.00 Confederate bill. An attractive check printed in black ink in several typefaces, with a decorative border and an engraving of Riggs & Co.(by Hatch & Co.). President Lincoln orders payment of $20.00 to his personal secretary, John Hay, "for self." Unexamined out of frame.

A check dated on an important occasion. The War was going badly. McClellan's Army of the Potomac, having been pushed back from Richmond by Lee's Confederates, was camped at Harrison's Landing on the James River, awaiting its evacuation. Lincoln, aware of the seriousness of the military stalemate and wanting to see at first hand the state of the army and its morale, boarded a ship at Washington early on the 7th and sailed to the James to confer with McClellan.