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[1] ALS, RPB. No communication from Smith has been found. His son, named Allen Hall Smith, was born on September 16, 1863. The only likely candidate
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[1] ALS, RPB. No communication from Smith has been found. His son, named Allen Hall Smith, was born on September 16, 1863. The only likely candidate
for ``the General you fancy most,'' as suggested by Lincoln, would seem to be Brigadier General Robert Allen of Springfield, Illinois, concerning whom see Lincoln to Hatch and Dubois, September 22, infra.