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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)
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.
Recommended Citation
E457 .N653 2011 V.3, pages 354-355, Original Documents and Original photographs in Nicolay and Hay’s Abraham Lincoln , Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana, Mississippi State University Libraries