Monday, May 26, 2014

Oliver P. Morton, Governor of Indiana, to Abraham Lincoln, April 15, 1861

Executive Department Of Indiana,
Indianapolis, April 15,1861.
To Abraham Lincoln,
President of the United States:

On behalf of the State of Indiana, I tender to you, for the defence of the Nation and to uphold the authority of the Government, ten thousand men.

oliver P. Morton,
Governor of Indiana.

SOURCE: Indiana Republican State Central Committee, Oliver P. Morton, of Indiana: A Sketch of His Life and Public Services, p. 15

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