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LINCOLN, Abraham, President. Autograph endorsement signed ("A. Lincoln") as President, to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, [Washington, D.C.], 6 December 1862. 2 lines, date and signature on the verso of page 4 of a letter to Representative James A. Cravens from Thomas L. Smith and 12 other individuals, New Albany, Indiana, 2 December 1862. 2 pages, 4to, with additional autograph endorsement of Cravens above Lincoln's note, and autograph endorsement of C. McKeever, War Department, 9 Dec. 1862.
INDIANA REQUESTS THE APPOINTMENT OF A HOOSIER GENERAL
The letter to representative Cravens protests that "Indiana has furnished more troops for the Union Army, in porportion to her population, than any other District in the State. Yet in the appointment of Brigadier Generals of Volunteers by the President this district has been entirely overlooked..." They recommend "Col. William L. Sanderson, of the 23d Regiment Indiana Vols. He has been repeatedly under fire, both in the present war and in the war with Mexico...[and] we respectfully ask you to at once use your influence with the President for his appointment as a Brigadier General of Volunteers."
The letter was forwarded to Lincoln, who knew a hot potato when he saw one and passed it on to the War Department. The appointment was apparently never made. By the war's end, Indiana had furnished 197,000 men to the Union armies; this total was exceeded only by four other states. Published in Collected Works, ed. R.P. Basler, 10:167.
INDIANA REQUESTS THE APPOINTMENT OF A HOOSIER GENERAL
The letter to representative Cravens protests that "Indiana has furnished more troops for the Union Army, in porportion to her population, than any other District in the State. Yet in the appointment of Brigadier Generals of Volunteers by the President this district has been entirely overlooked..." They recommend "Col. William L. Sanderson, of the 23d Regiment Indiana Vols. He has been repeatedly under fire, both in the present war and in the war with Mexico...[and] we respectfully ask you to at once use your influence with the President for his appointment as a Brigadier General of Volunteers."
The letter was forwarded to Lincoln, who knew a hot potato when he saw one and passed it on to the War Department. The appointment was apparently never made. By the war's end, Indiana had furnished 197,000 men to the Union armies; this total was exceeded only by four other states. Published in Collected Works, ed. R.P. Basler, 10:167.