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

To Salmon P. Chase1Jump to section

Executive Mansion, Washington,
Hon. Secretary of the Treasury: May 13, 1863.

My dear Sir: I return the letters of General Garfield and Mr. Flanders. I am sorry to know the general's pet expedition under Colonel Streight, has already been captured. Whether it had paid for itself, as he hoped, I do not know. If you think it proper to fill the agency mentioned by Mr. Flanders, by all means let Mr. F. be the man.2Jump to section

Please send me over the commission for Lewis C. Gunn, as you recommend, for collector of customs at Puget Sound.3Jump to section Yours truly,

A. LINCOLN.

Annotation

[1]   ALS, RPB, Account of the Private Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase (1874), p. 528. The letters of General James A. Garfield and Benjamin F. Flanders have not been located. Colonel Abel D. Streight commanding a raiding party sent from Tuscumbia, Alabama, to cut railroads,

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was captured with 1,600 men by General Nathan Bedford Forrest near Rome, Georgia, on May 3, 1863.

[2]   Flanders was appointed supervising special agent of the Treasury Department at New Orleans.

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[3]   See Lincoln to Chase, May 11, supra.

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