Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 [Letter and Newspaper][Decimalized .01- .02]

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Collection Summary

Letter from Lincoln to General Hurlbut not to order subpar guns, and a issue of Scientific America with a cover story on guns.

Collection Details

GLC#: GLC00005
Type: Header Record
Date: January 25, 1862 - August 04, 1863
Author/Creator: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Title: [Letter and Newspaper][Decimalized .01- .02]
Pagination: 2 items

Time Period

Primary time period: Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877

Sub-Era: The American Civil War

People

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Hurlbut, Stephen Augustus, 1815-1882

Subjects

Military History

Science and Technology

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GLC00005.01

Collection Item

Autograph letter signed

to Gen. Stephen A. Hurlbut.

August 4, 1863

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Lincoln tested the firing mechanism of automatic navy rifles and found it faulty; he tells Hurlbut not to order the guns. (Hurlbut) Convicted of embezzling funds and money from the National Bank of Baltimore.

GLC00005.01

GLC00005.02

Collection Item

Scientific American. [Vol. 6, no. 4 (January 25, 1862)]

January 25, 1862

Scientific American

GLC00005.02