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[1] AES copy, DLC-RTL. Lincoln copied McClellan's recommendation and his own endorsement for preservation in his file. The original, sent to General Ripley, has not been located. McClellan's undated recommendation as copied by Lincoln
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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"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 5 [Oct. 24, 1861-Dec. 12, 1862]." In the digital collection Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/lincoln5. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.
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Page 76
is as follows: ``I would recommend that fifty of the `Coffee Mill' guns be furnished at 20% advance on cost price, which cost may be ascertained by competent ordnance officers. I think $1200, entirely too high. Geo. B. McClellan Maj. Genl. Commg.'' Although this early machine gun was successfully tested and certified by Colonel Charles P. Kingsbury of the Ordnance Department (November 30, 1861, ibid.), the guns ordered were never used.