Letter, Nov. 4, 1864.

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Letter, Nov. 4, 1864.

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Letter to Major Thomas T. Eckert where he disagrees with Grant's opinion about "the practicability of guarding and maintaining a line on the proposed route." States he will not endorse enclosed papers and gives his objections to proposed telegraph line from Cairo, Ill. to New Orleans, La.

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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