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"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 8." In the digital collection Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln8. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 19, 2024.
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[1] ALS, DNA WR RG 107, Presidential Telegrams, I, 168. No reply from General James B. Steedman has been discovered, and Mrs. McElrath has not been identified.
On October 27, however, Nathaniel G. Taylor wrote Lincoln of Mrs. McElrath's return to Knoxville: ``Mrs McElrath (widow of Major McE. late of the rebel army) who recently had an interview with you at Washington, waited on . . . Brig Gen. S[amuel] P. Carter at Knoxville E.T. to take the oath of Amnesty, and speaking of yourself stated `When Gen. Carters name was mentioned President Lincoln remarked ``that he did not think Genl. C. was any better friend of his than she Mrs McE. was''. . . .' '' (DLC-RTL).
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