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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 29, 2024.
Major General Butler Executive Mansion,
Fort-Monroe, Va. Washington, March 14, 1864.
1 Lieut, and Adjt. of 6. Wisconsin Volunteers, Edward P. Brooks is a prisoner of War at Richmond; and if you can, without difficulty, effect a special exchange for him, I shall be obliged.
A. LINCOLN
Annotation
[1] ALS, DNA WR RG 107, Presidential Telegrams, I, 5. General Butler's telegram in reply was received at 6:25 P.M.: ``Lieut. Brooks will be sent forward