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- GLC#
- GLC05316
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 10 October 1864
- Author/Creator
- Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
- Title
- to William P. Fessenden
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 22.2 cm, Width: 19.2 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Countersigned by E. D. Morgan, Joseph Hoxie, L. Draper, George Opdyke, Shepherd Knapp, Waldo Hutchins, and C.A. Marshall. Recommends to Secretary of the Treasury Fessenden that Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., be appointed a government agent "for the purchase and sale of cotton and other commodities in the States that have been and are, in rebellion." Greeley was the founder of the New York Tribune and an influential political activist. Opdyke had served as mayor of New York during the city's 1863 draft riots. Hutchins was a prominent New York attorney and future U.S. Congressman. Morgan, former governor of New York, was then a U.S. senator.
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