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Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) to Maj. John Dix

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00876 Author/Creator: Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Place Written: Washington Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 24 June 1863 Pagination: 1 p. ; 16 x 10 cm. Order a Copy

Written in pencil on mourning stationery, re: dispatch from Grant, Kirby Smith and Gen. Banks.

Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. VI 1862 - 1863,
p. 293.

Notes: Basler 6: 293 notes that the time has been erased and rewritten by a clerk as "9:05 P.M." and that "Grant's despatch [sic] to Halleck of June 19 reported his removal of General John A. McClernand." General Kirby Smith had not taken Milliken's Bend, La., as Lincoln surmised.

905 PM Washington
June 24. 1863 [9 P.M.]
Major Genl. Dix
YorkTown, Va
We have a despatch [sic] from Gen. Grant of the 19th. Dont [sic] think Kirby Smith took Miliken's [sic] Bend since, allowing time to get the news to Joe Johnston & from him to Richmond. But it is not absolutely impossible-- Also have news from Banks to the 16th I think-- He had [inserted above: not] run away then, nor thought of it.
A. Lincoln

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