Letter, March 17, 1863.

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Letter, March 17, 1863.

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Signed letter to Garret Wall in Trenton, New Jersey from Merritt, H.K.S. O'Melveny and Silas L. Bryan(father of William J.) as a committee chosen to represent citizens of Marion County concerned about the Conscription Law. Asks for Wall's advice, help and urges a convention of northern states to protest the law.

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Bryan, Silas Lillard.

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Merritt, John, 1806-1886

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Marion County, Illinois lawyer and founder and editor of the Salem Advocate, a newspaper. He was Assistant Secretary of the 1861 Illinois Constitutional Convention and elected to the legislature in 1862. In 1860 he was a member of the delegation to the Democratic Convention. From the description of Letter, March 17, 1863. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 52923301 ...

United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...

Wall, Garrett

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