BIB_ID
120871
Accession number
MA 810.12
Creator
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Display Date
1865 Feb. 10.
Credit line
Gift of Robert Todd Lincoln, 1908.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 24.7 cm + envelope
Notes
See MA 810.12a for Robert Todd Lincoln's explanantion of the circumstances surrounding this letter and its accompanying memorandum.
This item is part of a collection of letters and legal documents of Abraham Lincoln; see main record for MA 810 for more information.
To be given to him by his nephew, a prisoner of war whom Lincoln caused to be released on an exchange basis.
This item is part of a collection of letters and legal documents of Abraham Lincoln; see main record for MA 810 for more information.
To be given to him by his nephew, a prisoner of war whom Lincoln caused to be released on an exchange basis.
Provenance
Robert Todd Lincoln.
Summary
Alluding to their agreement for an exchange of prisoners; in exchange for Lieut. Stephens, asking him to send "the officer of the same rank, imprisoned at Richmond, whose physical condition most urgently requires his release."
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