Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 5 [Oct. 24, 1861-Dec. 12, 1862].

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Title: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 5 [Oct. 24, 1861-Dec. 12, 1862].
Author: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Publication: New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press; 1953.
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[1] William R. Plum, The Military Telegraph During the Civil War . . . . (1882), I, 129. According to Plum's account, Lincoln's endorsement was written on a letter from Thomas A. Scott, October 28, 1861, referring to the president Anson Stager, general superintendent of Western Union at Cleveland, Ohio, with a plan for managing the military telegraph. Cameron approved the plan, and Stager was commissioned captain and assigned to duty in the War Department, where he served as chief of U.S. Military Telegraph with rank of colonel from February 26, 1862.