BIB_ID
120869
Accession number
MA 810.8
Creator
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Display Date
1863 Mar. 26.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 25 cm
Notes
Marked "Private" at top of page.
On "Executive Mansion" letterhead stationery.
This item is part of a collection of letters and legal documents of Abraham Lincoln; see main record for MA 810 for more information.
On "Executive Mansion" letterhead stationery.
This item is part of a collection of letters and legal documents of Abraham Lincoln; see main record for MA 810 for more information.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan from Mrs. Langdon, 1908.
Summary
Concerning the raising of a "negro military force"; noting that "the colored population is the great available and yet unavailed of, force for restoring the Union"; saying that "the bare sight of fifty thousand armed, and drilled black soldiers on the banks of the Mississippi, would end the rebellion at once."
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