Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 6 [Dec. 13, 1862-Nov. 3, 1863].

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Title: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 6 [Dec. 13, 1862-Nov. 3, 1863].
Author: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Publication: New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press; 1953.
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To Daniel Butterfield1Jump to section

War Department, Washington City,
Major General Butterfield: May 11, 1863.

About what distance is it from the Observatory, we stopped at last Thursday to the line of enemys works you ranged the glass upon for me? A. LINCOLN.

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[1] Thirty-eighth Congress, Second Session, Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War (1865), I, 237. General Butterfield replied at 6:15 P.M., ``About two miles in a direct line.'' (DLC-RTL).

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