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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC03878.01 |
| From Archive Folder | Unassociated Civil War Documents 1863 |
| Title | Abraham Lincoln to Benjamin B. French reporting the results of a meeting with Secretary of War Stanton |
| Date | 19 August 1863 |
| Author | Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) |
| Recipient | French, Benjamin |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Reports the results of a meeting with Secretary of War Stanton, "who...will return to the Trustees their own building now in control of the Surgeon General." Lincoln is referring to a Washington, D.C. school house that the War Department took control of to convert into a Medical Museum. Written on Executive Mansion stationary. |
| Subjects | President Lincoln's Cabinet Museum Health and Medical Civil War Military History Union Forces Education |
| People | Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) French, Benjamin B. (Benjamin Brown) (1800-1870) Stanton, E. M. (Edwin McMasters) (1814-1869) |
| Place written | Washington, D.C. |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Health & Medicine; Education |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
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