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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC00596 |
From Archive Folder | Unassociated Civil War Documents 1865 |
Title | Abraham Lincoln to James B. Fry about New York draft |
Date | 6 February 1865 |
Author | Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) |
Recipient | Fry, James B. |
Document Type | Government document; Correspondence |
Content Description | Note to Provost Marshall Fry about verifying New York draft quota. Includes Lincoln's endorsement later that day recording a conversation with Fry that it cannot be done. Signed twice by Lincoln. Written on Executive Mansion letterhead. |
Subjects | Conscription Military History Civil War Government and Civics President Union Forces |
People | Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Fry, James B. (James Barnet) (1827-1894) |
Place written | Washington, D.C. |
Theme | The American Civil War; Government & Politics |
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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