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- Letter from Abraham Lincoln to…
- Creator:
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Collection:
- Lincoln Signed Documents
- Location:
- Washington, D.C.
- Date of Original:
- 1864
- Description:
- Letter, 25 cm. Lincoln requests but does not order General William T. Sherman to allow soldiers from Indiana to return to Indiana to vote in the October election. The letter was hand carried and delivered to Sherman's headquarters by William Mitchell, a former Indiana congressman.
- Subject:
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Correspondence; Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891--Correspondence; Mitchell, William, 1807-1865; Indiana--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
- Category:
- Manuscripts & Documents
- Format of Original:
- Manuscript
- Item ID:
- 71200908300100
- Holding Institution:
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana
- Digital File ID:
- 71200908300100
- Available for Viewing:
- By appointment only
- Download:
- PDF (257.99 KB)