The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln
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Chapter 296 : EXECUTIVE MANSION, WAs.h.i.+NGTON, April 14, 1865
GENERAL VAN ALLEN:
I intend to adopt
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WAs.h.i.+NGTON, April 14, 1865
GENERAL VAN ALLEN:
I intend to adopt the advice of my friends and use due precaution....
I thank you for the a.s.surance you give me that I shall be supported by conservative men like yourself, in the efforts I may make to restore the Union, so as to make it, to use your language, a Union of hearts and hands as well as of States.
Yours truly,
A. LINCOLN.
LINCOLN'S LAST WRITTEN WORDS
Allow Mr. Ashmer and friend to come in at 9 A.M. to-morrow.
A. LINCOLN. April 14, 1865