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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[1] OR, III, V, 625. Numerous original signed copies of this printed order are extant. Each of these documents has the blanks properly filled in by a War Department clerk and bears Lincoln's full signature, ``Abraham Lincoln.'' The earliest extant order of which we have record is that for the Seventeenth District of Pennsylvania, dated June 23, 1863, and the latest is that for the Second District of Minnesota, dated September 24, 1863. These signed documents have not been reproduced individually in the following pages.

[2] Although the printed form was obviously prepared for use after July 4, 1863, a scrupulous War Department clerk was careful to correct the printed text to ``eighty-seventh'' for at least some of the orders issued prior to July 4. Such a one is the order for the Seventh District of Pennsylvania, July 1, 1863 (DS, owned by Foreman M. Lebold, Chicago, Illinois).