LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President. Autograph endorsement signed ("A. Lincoln") as President, [Washington, D.C.], 14 January 1865, ALSO SIGNED BY VICE-PRESIDENT HANNIBAL HAMLIN. Lincoln's 6 lines and signature are on the blank verso of a letter from P. Golden of Bangor, Maine to John H. Rice in Washington. 2 pages, 8vo, with a handcolored engraved portrait on blue cloth background, glazed in a giltwood frame, unexamined out of frame. Golden writes to Rice concerning a cousin, John Murphy who is a prisoner of war. "He was forced into the Confederate Service...at Vicksburg and escaped from the regiment...with the hope of escaping North but not succeeding in this he was obliged to join again under another name the 42nd Battalion of Virginia Cavalry of which he was a member when taken prisoner....He is a true Union man and wishes...to take the oath of allegiance and come here... I will refer you to the Hon. [Vice-President] Hannibal Hamlin who will give you all the information you may desire...." Lincoln writes: "We think this man should be discharged," and beneath the signatures of Hamlin and Rice he adds, "Let this man take the oath of Dec. 8 l863, & be discharged." Lincoln's and Vice President Hamlin's signatures are infrequently found together on a single document.
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President. Autograph endorsement signed ("A. Lincoln") as President, [Washington, D.C.], 14 January 1865, ALSO SIGNED BY VICE-PRESIDENT HANNIBAL HAMLIN. Lincoln's 6 lines and signature are on the blank verso of a letter from P. Golden of Bangor, Maine to John H. Rice in Washington. 2 pages, 8vo, with a handcolored engraved portrait on blue cloth background, glazed in a giltwood frame, unexamined out of frame. Golden writes to Rice concerning a cousin, John Murphy who is a prisoner of war. "He was forced into the Confederate Service...at Vicksburg and escaped from the regiment...with the hope of escaping North but not succeeding in this he was obliged to join again under another name the 42nd Battalion of Virginia Cavalry of which he was a member when taken prisoner....He is a true Union man and wishes...to take the oath of allegiance and come here... I will refer you to the Hon. [Vice-President] Hannibal Hamlin who will give you all the information you may desire...." Lincoln writes: "We think this man should be discharged," and beneath the signatures of Hamlin and Rice he adds, "Let this man take the oath of Dec. 8 l863, & be discharged." Lincoln's and Vice President Hamlin's signatures are infrequently found together on a single document.
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