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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
LINCOLN, Abraham. Autograph letter signed ("A. Lincoln"), as President to Secretary of War (Edwin M. Stanton), Washington, 8 April 1864. 1 page, 4to, Executive Mansion stationery, creases discreetly mended on verso.
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LINCOLN, Abraham. Autograph letter signed ("A. Lincoln"), as President to Secretary of War (Edwin M. Stanton), Washington, 8 April 1864. 1 page, 4to, Executive Mansion stationery, creases discreetly mended on verso.
"THE ACCUMULATION OF PRISONERS" FROM MISSOURI AND KENTUCKY
A fine Lincoln war-date letter about the release of captured Confederate soldiers--but not commissioned officers--from the crucial border states of Missouri and Kentucky. "Herewith," he tells Stanton, "are papers [not included] showing the accumulations of prisoners for which Kentucky and Missouri members respectively, are willing to vouch. They tell me they make but a small percentage of the applications they have on hand. Though the papers do not show, I suppose some of them are commissioned officers; and you see I make the endorsements so that they may not be discharged." We know from another order drafted by Lincoln on this date that three of the Members of Congress were Kentuckians: Brutus J. Clay, W. H. Randall and Lucius Anderson. Clay served as a "Unionist" party member, while Randall and Anderson called themselves "Unconditional Unionists." Such subtleties reveal the many shadings of opinion in this divided border state. We do not know the identity of the Missouri members. Published in Basler First Supplement 10:235.
"THE ACCUMULATION OF PRISONERS" FROM MISSOURI AND KENTUCKY
A fine Lincoln war-date letter about the release of captured Confederate soldiers--but not commissioned officers--from the crucial border states of Missouri and Kentucky. "Herewith," he tells Stanton, "are papers [not included] showing the accumulations of prisoners for which Kentucky and Missouri members respectively, are willing to vouch. They tell me they make but a small percentage of the applications they have on hand. Though the papers do not show, I suppose some of them are commissioned officers; and you see I make the endorsements so that they may not be discharged." We know from another order drafted by Lincoln on this date that three of the Members of Congress were Kentuckians: Brutus J. Clay, W. H. Randall and Lucius Anderson. Clay served as a "Unionist" party member, while Randall and Anderson called themselves "Unconditional Unionists." Such subtleties reveal the many shadings of opinion in this divided border state. We do not know the identity of the Missouri members. Published in Basler First Supplement 10:235.