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Will Gen. Hitchcock please see and hear the bearer, Col. Coburn, on the subject within? A. LINCOLN
Jan. 19. 1865.
Annotation
[1] AES, In. Lincoln's endorsement appears on the back of a four-page letter from Oliver P. Morton, January 12, 1865, presented by Colonel John Coburn, Thirty-third Indiana Volunteers, requesting immediate action in regard to exchanging Confederate prisoners in Indiana prisons for members of the Fifty-first and Seventy-third Indiana Regiments, suffering in Southern prisons.