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LINCOLN, Abraham. Autograph letter signed ("A. Lincoln") as President, to Secretary of War Simon Cameron, "Executive Mansion," Washington, D.C., 25 June 1861. 1 page, 8vo, integral blank incomplete, minor evidence of attachment, minor mat burn.
LINCOLN APPROVES A NEW REGIMENT OF VOLUNTEERS, RAISED IN NEW YORK CITY
After the surrender of Fort Sumter in April, 1861, President Lincoln immediately called upon the states to furnish 75,000 volunteers to restore the Union. Thousands of young men hurried to local recruiters to have the opportunity to punish the rebels. New Yorkers answered the call in greater numbers than any other state and the first volunteers to enter Washington were a New York regiment. The drive to enlist more men continued through the summer. On June 23, Richard Goodwin advertised in the New York Tribune for volunteers to serve in a new regiment that he proudly called the President's Life Guard and asked President Lincoln to accept his regiment into national service.
Here Lincoln informs his Secretary of War that he approves: "Col Richard D. Goodwin wishes to tender another Regiment for New York. With your concurrence and the consent of the governor of New York, I have no objection. Please give him a short interview, and look at the notice of his Regiment which he will show you in the New York Tribune."
Sadly for Goodwin, his recruits were taken into the service as company A of the 59th New York Infantry (the idea of a Lincoln Life Guard seems to have been dropped) but Goodwin was not offered a commission and did not lead them into battle. The 59th fought with great valor, seeing action in the West Woods at Antietam as part of Napoleon Dana's Brigade (where the regiment lost 224 men) and aiding in the pivotal repulse of Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg.
Published in Basler, 4:416.
LINCOLN APPROVES A NEW REGIMENT OF VOLUNTEERS, RAISED IN NEW YORK CITY
After the surrender of Fort Sumter in April, 1861, President Lincoln immediately called upon the states to furnish 75,000 volunteers to restore the Union. Thousands of young men hurried to local recruiters to have the opportunity to punish the rebels. New Yorkers answered the call in greater numbers than any other state and the first volunteers to enter Washington were a New York regiment. The drive to enlist more men continued through the summer. On June 23, Richard Goodwin advertised in the New York Tribune for volunteers to serve in a new regiment that he proudly called the President's Life Guard and asked President Lincoln to accept his regiment into national service.
Here Lincoln informs his Secretary of War that he approves: "Col Richard D. Goodwin wishes to tender another Regiment for New York. With your concurrence and the consent of the governor of New York, I have no objection. Please give him a short interview, and look at the notice of his Regiment which he will show you in the New York Tribune."
Sadly for Goodwin, his recruits were taken into the service as company A of the 59th New York Infantry (the idea of a Lincoln Life Guard seems to have been dropped) but Goodwin was not offered a commission and did not lead them into battle. The 59th fought with great valor, seeing action in the West Woods at Antietam as part of Napoleon Dana's Brigade (where the regiment lost 224 men) and aiding in the pivotal repulse of Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg.
Published in Basler, 4:416.