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[1] Thomas F. Madigan, The Autograph Album, June, 1928. This fragment of text is all that is available. General Dix wrote Lincoln on November 17, ``I feel a strong Sympathy in behalf of the people of the Eastern Shore of Virginia---Accomac and Northampton Counties. . . . they have united themselves to Western Virginia: they have had two elections: and they have sent strong Union men to the Legislature and Congress. . . . When you issued your Proclamation in July last designating the States and parts of States that were to be deemed loyal & omitting these two Counties, I thought to write to you begging that they should be added to the number thus designated I write now to make the request, in order that they may be relieved from the penalties of disloyalty. . . .'' (DLC-RTL). On November 24 Dix acknowledged receipt of Lincoln's letter and expressed gratification ``to learn . . . that there is no objection to recognition of their loyal condition. . . .'' (Ibid.).