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 Mrs. Hannah Armstrong1Jump to section

Mrs. Hannah Armstrong Washington,
Petersburg, Illinois. Sep. 18. 1863

I have just ordered the discharge of your boy William, as you say, now at Louisville, Ky. A. LINCOLN.

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[1] ALS, RPB. No correspondence from Hannah Armstrong has been found. The roster of Company C, Eighty-fifth Illinois Volunteers lists William Armstrong as ``Discharged at Louisville, Ky. by order of the President.'' According to tradition, the son of Jack and Hannah Armstrong, William (``Duff'') Armstrong, whom Lincoln had successfully defended in a famous murder trial in 1858, was ill with rheumatism and unable to obtain a discharge; whereupon his mother asked a friend, ``Uncle Jakey'' Garber, to write a letter for her asking the president to obtain William's discharge (Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, XIV, 266).

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