Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 8 [ Sept. 12, 1864-Apr. 14, 1865, undated, appendices].

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Title: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 8 [ Sept. 12, 1864-Apr. 14, 1865, undated, appendices].
Author: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Publication: New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press; 1953.
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To Simon Cameron1Jump to section

Office U.S. Military Telegraph,
Gen. S. Cameron War Department, Washington, D.C.,
Philadelphia Pa & Harrisburgh2 Oct. 11. 1864.

Am leaving office to go home. How does it stand now?

A. LINCOLN

Annotation

[1] ALS, DNA WR RG 107, Presidential Telegrams, I, 198. No reply was received from Cameron until his telegram from Philadelphia was received at 9:05 P.M. on October 12: ``Returns came in slowly but I still think we will have four

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(4) additional Members of Congress & a large majority in the Legislature On the aggregate vote in thirty four counties we have last . . . 6500 compared with Eighteen hundred Sixty three. . . . At the same ratio we will have more than three thousand majority on the home vote.'' (DLC-RTL).

[2] ``& Harrisburgh'' is not in Lincoln's autograph.