E.K. Winship telegram to Joseph R. Hawley, 1881 July 2.

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E.K. Winship telegram to Joseph R. Hawley, 1881 July 2.

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Telegram written from Washington, DC, to General Hawley in Hartford, Connecticut, relating the Charles Guiteau's shooting of President James A. Garfield at the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad Station. Garfield lingered for eleven weeks before finally succumbing his wounds.

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