To Salmon P. Chase1Jump to section
Hon. Secretary of Treasury. Executive Mansion, May 7, 1861.
My dear Sir: You may remember that John S. Gallaher, a worthy Virginia gentleman, has been and is an applicant for an
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 4 [Mar. 5, 1860-Oct. 24, 1861].
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- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 4 [Mar. 5, 1860-Oct. 24, 1861].
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- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
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- New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press
- 1953.
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"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 4 [Mar. 5, 1860-Oct. 24, 1861]." In the digital collection Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/lincoln4. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024.
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Auditorship in your Department. He now writes a friend here that he understands that the place of 5th Auditor has been made vacant by the resignation of a North Carolinian. If this is true, might not Mr. Gallaher have the place? Yours truly, A. LINCOLN
Annotation
[1] Tracy, p. 182. John C. Underwood of Virginia received the appointment. John S. Gallaher is not of record as a federal employee until the U.S. Official Register lists him as a clerk in the quartermaster general's office, September 30, 1863.