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- GLC#
- GLC01233.01-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- September 11, 1862
- Author/Creator
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Title
- Reply to Caleb Smith re: meeting with John Ross (Chief of Cherokee)
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 25 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Endorsement on blank leaf of Caleb Smith's letter. Smith's letter was written on Interior Department Stationery, agreeing to meet with Cherokee chief Ross.
Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. V 1861 - 1862,
p. 415 - 416.
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