Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 1.

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Title
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 1.
Author
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Publication
New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press
1953.
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April 14, 1848

I do hereby certify that I was personally well acquainted with 2nd. Lieutenant Thomas Davis, who served for a time as a private in Captain Frank L. [S.?] Early's company, of the 1st. Regt. of Texas volunteers, and who was transfered from that service, by a commission of a 2nd. Lieutenancy in the United States Rifle Regiment, which Regiment served in Col. Harney's2Open page Brigade, at the battle of Cerro Gordo, and who fell in that battle; that I am also well acquainted with the family to which said Lieut. Davis belonged; that his father has been dead for many years; that his

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mother, Maria Davis, a widow, is still living, at Springfield, Illinois, and that said Lieut. Davis was never married.

April 14th. 1848 A. LINCOLN---

A member of Congress.

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