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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-P, ISLA. Lincoln's endorsement appears on a petition addressed to the Secretary of War, presented by Congressman Edward H. Rollins of New Hampshire: ``About five o'clock in the afternoon of April 14, 1865, Rollins called upon the President to secure his endorsement on a petition from new Hampshire addressed to the Secretary of War. Lincoln had finished his day's business and left his office in the White House, going up-stairs. On receiving Rollins' card, he returned to meet him. Lincoln took the petition on his knee and wrote his endorsement, dated it, and signed his name. . . . Rollins did not present the petition, but kept it as a memento . . . forwarding the request of his New Hampshire constituents in another way. . . .'' (James O. Lyford, Life of Edward H. Rollins, pp. 187-88).
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