To-day, Senator Bowden, with Mr. Boyd, & Mr. Hawxhurst, one an editor & one a member of the Legislature, call and ask that Col. Joseph Snider, of the 7th. Va. now in the A.P. be a Brigadier General. He has been three times hit,---twice at Antietam with but slight injury, and once very serverly at Fredericksburg. Also has had two horses shot under him. They say Gov. Pierpoint & many of the Legislature [are] for him. He resides in Monongalia Co. West Virginia.
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 6 [Dec. 13, 1862-Nov. 3, 1863].
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- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 6 [Dec. 13, 1862-Nov. 3, 1863].
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- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
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- New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press
- 1953.
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"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 6 [Dec. 13, 1862-Nov. 3, 1863]." In the digital collection Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/lincoln6. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.
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Executive Mansion, Washington, March 9, 1863.