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 May 13, 2024.
If it is possible to furnish 5000 stand of Arms to the State Govt. at Wheeling, without endangering other points too much, let it be done.
The bearer of this an intelligent gentleman from there, whom please see a moment A. LINCOLN
July 29. 1861
Annotation
[1] AES, DLC-RTL. Lincoln's endorsement is written on a letter from John S. Carlile introducing James W. Paxton and Daniel Lamb of Wheeling, Virginia. Thomas A. Scott, acting secretary of war, informed Carlile, August 6, 1861, that `` . . . 2,000 rifled arms were ordered . . . to Western Virginia. . . . One thousand of the arms . . . to be delivered to J. W. Paxton and Daniel Lamb. . . . '' (OR, III, I, 389).