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.
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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 April 20, 2024.
If it is true that Major Miller made payments under express orders of the Secretary of War; as a matter of equity, he, Major Miller, should not be made to lose the money; but the accounting office having settled the matter, I doubt both the legality and propriety of interference by the President.
Annotation
[1] Copy, DNA WR RG 107, Secretary of War, Letters Received, P 318, Register notation. The letter of Major Morris S. Miller bearing Lincoln's endorsement is missing from the file, but the register preserves a transcript of Lincoln's endorsement as given above. Miller served as quartermaster at Washington, D.C., May, 1861 to September, 1864.