to Gideon Welles

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 to Gideon Welles

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GLC#
GLC04649
Type
Letters
Date
21 May 1861
Author/Creator
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Title
to Gideon Welles
Place Written
Washington, District of Columbia
Pagination
1 p. : docket Height: 20.5 cm, Width: 13.2 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Writes to Secretary of the Navy Welles to endorse Walter Trumbull, the son of Illinois Senator Trumbull. Asks that the young man be given an interview for admission to the Naval Academy.

Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. IV 1860 - 1861,
p. 381

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