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 James Speed1Jump to section

Attorney General please file & inform me at whose recommendation Duffield was appointed. A. LINCOLN

Jan. 12. 1865

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[1] AES, RPB. Lincoln's endorsement is written on a letter from Charles D. Poston, delegate in congress from Arizona, January 10, 1865, recommending ``Col. King S. Woolsey of Prescott Arizona as a Suitable person for United States Marshall of said Territory in place of Milton P. Duffield the present incumbent who is unworthy of the office. . . .'' No reply has been found. Duffield is listed as ``Milton H. Duffield'' in the U.S. Official Register for 1865.

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