Abraham Lincoln manuscript material : 1 item 1864

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Abraham Lincoln manuscript material : 1 item 1864

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Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of the United States. To "the Surgeon General" [i.e., Joseph K. Barnes, acting Surgeon General] : 1 autograph note signed "A. Lincoln" : 4 Mar 1864 : (MISC 0162) : [no place] : reads, "If the Surgeon General has the means will he please give the information sought in ths letter." Written on the verso of a letter by Mrs. R. W. Twitchell to Alexander Ramsey, then U.S. senator from Minnesota. Mrs. Twitchell asks the senator to deliver an enclosed letter (now lost) to the president; her husband is a member of the 9th Minnesota Regiment Volunteer Infantry which at the time was stationed in Rolla, Missouri. Twitchell's letter is docketed, perhaps in Ramsey's hand, noting that she "wants this letter handed to the President." Bears the circular "received" stamp of the Surgeon General's Office, dated 5 Mar 1864; and an attestation signed "Martha" which reads, "This is the presidents own handwriting.".

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The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Barnes, Joseph K., 1817-1883

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Ramsey, Alexander, 1815-1903

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U.S. secretary of war, U.S. senator and governor of Minnesota, governor of Minnesota, U.S. representative from Pennsylvania, mayor of St. Paul, Minn., banker, and lawyer. From the description of Letter and portraits of Alexander Ramsey, 1838. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449469 ...

Twitchell, R. W., Mrs

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