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LINCOLN, Abraham. Autograph endorsement signed ("A. Lincoln") as President, also endorsed by SECRETARY OF WAR EDWIN STANTON, and by LT. GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT, Lincoln's endorsement dated 27 February 1865, 5 lines plus date and signature, on verso of an engraved War Department Pass, accomplished and signed by the Assistant Adjutant General and another official, issued in Washington D.C., 2 February 1865, Lincoln's note dated 27 February 1865. A small oblong, 5 x 3 in). Minor soiling, small punch in blank area.
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LINCOLN, Abraham. Autograph endorsement signed ("A. Lincoln") as President, also endorsed by SECRETARY OF WAR EDWIN STANTON, and by LT. GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT, Lincoln's endorsement dated 27 February 1865, 5 lines plus date and signature, on verso of an engraved War Department Pass, accomplished and signed by the Assistant Adjutant General and another official, issued in Washington D.C., 2 February 1865, Lincoln's note dated 27 February 1865. A small oblong, 5 x 3 in). Minor soiling, small punch in blank area.
LINCOLN, STANTON AND GRANT ENDORSE A PASS FOR A BRITISH REPRESENTATIVE OF THE FREEDMAN'S BUREAU: "I BID HIM GOODSPEED"
AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE CONJUNCTION OF ENDORSEMENTS. In the closing months of the war, the President, Secretary and General Grant give instructions to "Pass Fred K. Tompkins, Secretary of the National Freedman's Aid Society of London," to specific Confederate cities now in Union hands including Norfolk, Va., Charleston S.C., and Savannah, Georgia," and to "return with transportation at half rates on a Govt. Transport." On the verso of the card at top, the Secretary of War approves: "Transportation free E.M. Stanton"; beneath, Lincoln has written: "I heartily commend Dr. Tompkin's object, and bid him God -speed in it. A Lincoln." At the bottom General Grant concurs, instructing "Pass Mr. F. Tomkins through all parts of the Armies of the U. States. U.S. Grant Lt. Gen. City Point, Va. March 2, 1865."
On 23 February, Henry Ward Beecher wrote to Lincoln: "The bearer, Fred Tompkins is a fast friend of the North, tho' an Englishman. He has been restlessly active in England for us. He comes now to collect facts about the freedman that he may aid us still more on his return" (Cited in Basler). Printed in Basler ed. Collected Works, 8:321, citing a similar pass given on the same date to one C.C. Leigh (now in the Long Island Historical Society).
A number of non-governmental charities were established during the war to aid the increasing number of former slaves with lodging, employment and medical needs. Fred K. Tompkins was a representative of one such group, based in London. With Lincoln's approval, a congressional act dated March 3, 1865, established the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, better known as the Freedman's Bureau. In the years after the Civil War, the Bureau played an important role in the reconstruction of the South; it was disbanded in 1869. By coincidence Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address was delivered only five days after this endorsement.
LINCOLN, STANTON AND GRANT ENDORSE A PASS FOR A BRITISH REPRESENTATIVE OF THE FREEDMAN'S BUREAU: "I BID HIM GOODSPEED"
AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE CONJUNCTION OF ENDORSEMENTS. In the closing months of the war, the President, Secretary and General Grant give instructions to "Pass Fred K. Tompkins, Secretary of the National Freedman's Aid Society of London," to specific Confederate cities now in Union hands including Norfolk, Va., Charleston S.C., and Savannah, Georgia," and to "return with transportation at half rates on a Govt. Transport." On the verso of the card at top, the Secretary of War approves: "Transportation free E.M. Stanton"; beneath, Lincoln has written: "I heartily commend Dr. Tompkin's object, and bid him God -speed in it. A Lincoln." At the bottom General Grant concurs, instructing "Pass Mr. F. Tomkins through all parts of the Armies of the U. States. U.S. Grant Lt. Gen. City Point, Va. March 2, 1865."
On 23 February, Henry Ward Beecher wrote to Lincoln: "The bearer, Fred Tompkins is a fast friend of the North, tho' an Englishman. He has been restlessly active in England for us. He comes now to collect facts about the freedman that he may aid us still more on his return" (Cited in Basler). Printed in Basler ed. Collected Works, 8:321, citing a similar pass given on the same date to one C.C. Leigh (now in the Long Island Historical Society).
A number of non-governmental charities were established during the war to aid the increasing number of former slaves with lodging, employment and medical needs. Fred K. Tompkins was a representative of one such group, based in London. With Lincoln's approval, a congressional act dated March 3, 1865, established the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, better known as the Freedman's Bureau. In the years after the Civil War, the Bureau played an important role in the reconstruction of the South; it was disbanded in 1869. By coincidence Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address was delivered only five days after this endorsement.