Authors

Simon Cameron

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Contributor

Frank and Virginia Williams

Description

This letter, dated June 10, 1865, is written from Simon Cameron, a Pennsylvania representative in the United States Senate and United States Secretary of War under President Abraham Lincoln at the start of the American Civil War, to General George H. Thomas, an American general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, one of the principal commanders in the Western Theater. The letter discusses the commission of some officers. This note was found tipped into volume three, between pages 354-355 of Abraham Lincoln : A History by John G. Nicolay and John Hay.

Publication Date

6-10-1865

Rights

Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.

Publisher

New York : The Century Co

Subjects

Cameron, Simon, 1799 – 1889

Geographic Location

Harrisburg, (Penn.)

Object Type

text

Format (original)

correspondence: 1 leaf

Format (digital)

PDF

Digital ID

FVW_NH_V3_1865-06-10_Letter_001

Source

Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana, Nicolay and Hay’s Abraham Lincoln, Volume 3, page 354-355.

Repository

The Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana Repository

Digital Publisher

Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version)

Contact Information

For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.msstate.edu.

Letter, Simon Cameron to General George H. Thomas, June 10, 1865

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