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

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Title: 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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Memorandum of Appointments1Jump to section

[c. June, 1864]

Consul at Montreal--- John F. Potter. Wis.

{Joseph Holt

Judge Advocate General. {William McKee Dunn. Ia.

Montana---Governor. Sidney Edgerton. Idaho.

`` Secretary. Henry P. Torsey. Me.

`` C. J. Hezikiah L. Hosmer. N.Y.

`` As. J. Ammi Giddings. Conn.

`` As. J. Lorenzo P. Williston. Dakota.

Vacancancy [sic] in Idaho. Silas Woodson. Mo.

Do `` Dakota. A[sa]. Bartlett. Ills.

Attorney. Edward B. Neally. Iowa.

Marshal. C[ornelius]. F. Buck. Minn.

Surveyor G. Marcus Boyd. Mo.

Annotation

[1] AD, DLC-RTL. This document is incorrectly assigned the date of April, 1861, as cataloged in the Lincoln Papers, and bears a pencil notation, ``Jan. 1863 (?).'' The men and the appointments listed were not, as a group, possible earlier than June, 1864. Hosmer, Giddings, Williston, Neally, and Buck were nominated to the Senate on June 15; Potter, Edgerton, Torsey, Woodson, Bartlett, and Boyd, on June 20; Holt was reappointed, with Dunn as assitant judge advocate general, on June 22. Woodson replaced Edgerton as chief justice for Idaho, and Bartlett replaced Williston as associate justice for Dakota.

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