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Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 7 [Nov. 5, 1863-Sept. 12, 1864].

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Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 7 [Nov. 5, 1863-Sept. 12, 1864].
Author
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Publication
New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press
1953.
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"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 7 [Nov. 5, 1863-Sept. 12, 1864]." In the digital collection Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/lincoln7. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 20, 2025.

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[1]   ALS, RPB. This telegram is misdated by Nicolay and Hay ``February 6, 1864'' (NH, IX, 304). A telegram signed by Isaac Murphy, William M. Fishback, Lafayette Gregg, and E. D. Mayers was received at 7:35 P.M. on February 8: ``We understand that you have authorized Maj Gen. Steele to order an election on the 24th of March as you have doubtless seen the convention had appointed the fourteenth This call has gone into parts of the state to

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which a new call cannot go before the 24th unless you change to the fourteenth Neither election will have one tenth Please change by telegraph'' (DLC-RTL).

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