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- GLC#
- GLC05484
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- February 10, 1865
- Author/Creator
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Title
- to John Eaton
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 25 cm, Width: 19.9 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Lincoln instructs Eaton, Colonel of the 63rd U.S. Colored Infantry to "continue your supervision of Freedmen over the same territory & on the same principles as in the past ... " Signed and dated by Lincoln; the remaining text is in Eaton's hand. Embossment in the upper left corner.
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