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Authoring,
Researching, Reporting and other Work
A Learning
On-Line Activity by Howard Taylor
Fort
Sumter and Abraham Lincoln
Decisions,
T-Mails, Start of a War
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Abraham Lincoln Papers at the
Library of Congress. Transcribed and Annotated by the Lincoln
Studies Center, Knox College. Galesburg, Illinois.
Abraham Lincoln to Robert
Anderson, Wednesday, May 01, 1861 (Gratitude)
From Abraham Lincoln to
Major Robert Anderson [Draft in John G. Nicolay's
Hand]1, May 1,
1861
(Transcription)
Washington, D.
C.
May 1, 1861
My dear Sir:
A few days ago I caused an
official letter to be written you, through the War Department,
expressive of the approbation and gratitude I considered due you and
your command from this government.
I now write this as a purely
private and social letter, to say I shall be much gratified to see
you here at your earliest convenience, when and where I can
personally testify my appreciation of your services, and fidelity,
and perhaps explain some things on my part which you have
not may not have understood.
I shall also be very glad to
see any of the officers who served with you at Fort Sumter, and
whom it might be convenient and agreeable for you to invite to
accompany you here
Your obt Servt
A. Lincoln.
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