Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 4 [Mar. 5, 1860-Oct. 24, 1861].

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Title: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 4 [Mar. 5, 1860-Oct. 24, 1861].
Author: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Publication: New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press; 1953.
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To Winfield Scott1Jump to section

Executive Mansion,
Washington, D.C.,
Lieutenant-General Scott: September 16, 1861.

My dear Sir: Since conversing with you I have concluded to request you to frame an order for recruiting North Carolinians at Fort Hatteras. I suggest it be so framed as for us to accept a smaller force---even a company---if we cannot get a regiment or more. What is necessary to now say about officers, you will judge. Governor Seward says he has a nephew (Clarence A. Seward, I believe) who would be willing to go and play colonel and assist in raising the force. Still, it is to be considered whether the North Carolinians will not prefer officers of their own. I should expect they would. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN.

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[1] OR, I, IV, 613. AGO General Orders No. 79, September 17, 1861, authorized the acceptance of services of loyal North Carolinians, not to exceed one regiment, at Hatteras Inlet. Clarence A. Seward was lieutenant colonel of the Nineteenth New York Infantry May 22---September 28, 1861, but no other reference to his military service has been found.

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