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Sec. of War, please see Mr. Dole & others about the first colored regiment. Please do the best for them you can. . . .
Annotation
[1] Parke-Bernet Catalog 939, March 1-2, 1948, No. 267. This partial text is all that is available. William P. Dole and others represented the Union League of Washington, D.C., in recommending Reverend J. D. Turner and W. G. Raymond who had applied for ``permission to raise a colored Regiment in this District'' (W. G. Raymond to Lincoln, April 25, 1863, DLC-RTL).