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 Edwin M. Stanton1Jump to section

August 17, 1863

The writer of the within is reliable. Dr. Chipley has a son at Camp Chase, captured in the Confed. Army, who is now only in his eighteenth year. I think the Sec. of War may safely bail him to his father, who is unquestionably loyal. A. LINCOLN

Aug. 17. 1863.

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[1] AES, RPB. Lincoln's endorsement is written on a letter from Dr. Theodore S. Bell, president of the Kentucky Branch of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, August 6, 1863, introducing ``the bearer of this, Dr Wm S. Chipley, of Lexington, Ky . . . one of the most perfect specimens of a pure, unadulterated, unkinky Kentucky Union man that I could send you. . . .'' The letter is endorsed also by Stanton, who referred it to Major General Ethan A. Hitchcock, commissioner for exchange of prisoners, and by Hitchcock, recommending that ``the son, C. Chipley, be discharged upon taking the oath of allegiance.'' Privately Chipley had been with John H. Morgan's raid in Ohio and was captured on July 20.

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