To Edwin M. Stanton1Jump to section
February 8, 1865.
Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War.
Do not fail to have an interview with this most extraordinary and intelligent black man. A. LINCOLN.
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 8 [ Sept. 12, 1864-Apr. 14, 1865, undated, appendices].
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- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 8 [ Sept. 12, 1864-Apr. 14, 1865, undated, appendices].
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- 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 8 [ Sept. 12, 1864-Apr. 14, 1865, undated, appendices]." In the digital collection Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/lincoln8. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 28, 2024.
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Annotation
[1] Frank A. Rollin, Life and Public Services of Martin R. Delany (1883), p.171. According to the source, Martin R. Delany, Negro doctor and editor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, proposed to Lincoln that Negro officers of colored troops be appointed as a means of enlisting Southern Negroes in the army. AGO Special Orders No.98, February 27, 1865, directed; ``Major Martin R. Delany, U.S. Colored Troops, now in this city, will report in person, without delay, to Brevet Major-General Saxton, U.S. Volunteers, Superintendent of Recruitment and Organization of Colored Troops, Department of the South, at Beaufort, South Carolina, or wherever he may be.''