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"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 7." In the digital collection Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln7. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 28, 2024.
``Cypher.'' Executive Mansion
Gov. E. D. Morgan Washington, D. C.
Saratoga Springs, N. Y. Aug. 1. 1864
Please come here at once. I wish to see you. A LINCOLN
Annotation
[1] ALS, DNA WR RG 107, Presidential Telegrams, I, 119. Senator Morgan replied the same day, ``I will leave for Washington on the first train.'' (DLC-RTL). The urgency of Lincoln's message is not clear, but as chairman of the Union Party Executive Congressional Committee Morgan was probably consulted in regard to the pressing campaign or patronage problems.