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"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 8." In the digital collection Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln8. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 18, 2024.
Will Mr. Dickson, Chief Engineer of Hibernia please pump the water out of a certain well, which Tad will show?
Feb. 27, 1865 A LINCOLN
Annotation
[1] ALS-F, Wayne Whipple, The Story-Life of Lincoln, p. 616. According to Whipple, the Hibernia was a fire engine sent from Philadelphia to Washington with ``some of its company . . . during the War and remained at the Capital for some time to be in readiness for any emergency'' (p. 615).