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Let the suggestion of the Vice-President as to putting the Chicopee works into operation be duly considered by the War Department.
A. LINCOLN.
[1] OR, III, I, 106. Lincoln's endorsement is on Hamlin's letter of April 23, written from New York, which reads in part, `` . . . We are sadly deficient, and we want and need and should have rifled cannon. Let me urge earnestly and frankly that the works at Chicopee [Massachusetts] be put in operation to their utmost capacity to furnish them.''