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Memorandum:
Appointment of Eli D. Terwilliger1Jump to section
This note confounds me utterly. I am sure I have never been conscious that I was superseding Mr. Steele's man.
Annotation
[1] AE, DLC-RTL. Lincoln's endorsement is written on a letter from Secretary Chase. November 8, 1862, in reply to Lincoln's letter to Chase, supra.Chase wrote that ``A Committee from the 13th District called on you to ask for the appointment of Mr. Terwilliger, in place of Mr. Masten. . . . I consulted Secretary Seward, who thought the change should be made, and I accordingly referred the matter to you. Mr. Seward was present when you received my note accompanying the new papers, &, as he informed me, told you, in answer perhaps to some inquiry from you, that it was all right. . . . Mr. Terwilligers commission has been sent. . . . If it is to be recalled it will be necessary to notify him . . . & to reappoint Mr. Masten. . . . Mr. Steele, I presume, supported Mr. Seymour against Gen. Wadsworth; and Mr. Masten I doubt not contributed his full share to the defeat of the Republican nominee for Congress, if not to that of the State Ticket.'' (Ibid.).