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LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President. Autograph endorsement signed ("A.Lincoln") as President, [Washington, D.C.], 30 June 1864. 2 pages, on a small oblong card, eight lines plus signature and dateline, attractively double matted and in a burlwood frame.
LINCOLN PERMITS A YOUNG LADY TO VISIT CONFEDERATE PRISONERS
A lengthy message filling both sides of one of Lincoln's typical blank cards, grequently used for such quick messages. The President writes: "Allow the young lady, Miss Annie P. Shepherd to pass with Paymaster [George F.] Carpenter to Point Lookout, & see there, Charles Skinner, Thomas Gold, and Frank Shepherd, prisoners at that place." Published in Basler, 7:419-420. Point Lookout, a Federal prison in Maryland at the outlet of the Potomac in Chesapeake Bay, was a Union prison camp holding nearly 20,000 Confederate soldiers between 1863 and 1865. The prupose of the lady's visit to the three prisoners is unknown, but the prisoner bearing the same name is likely to have been a relative.
LINCOLN PERMITS A YOUNG LADY TO VISIT CONFEDERATE PRISONERS
A lengthy message filling both sides of one of Lincoln's typical blank cards, grequently used for such quick messages. The President writes: "Allow the young lady, Miss Annie P. Shepherd to pass with Paymaster [George F.] Carpenter to Point Lookout, & see there, Charles Skinner, Thomas Gold, and Frank Shepherd, prisoners at that place." Published in Basler, 7:419-420. Point Lookout, a Federal prison in Maryland at the outlet of the Potomac in Chesapeake Bay, was a Union prison camp holding nearly 20,000 Confederate soldiers between 1863 and 1865. The prupose of the lady's visit to the three prisoners is unknown, but the prisoner bearing the same name is likely to have been a relative.