Friday, January 10, 2014

Abraham Lincoln to Alexander Ramsey, August 27, 1862

EXECUTIVE MANSION, August 27, 1862.

Governor RAMSEY, Saint Paul, Minn.:

Yours received. Attend to the Indians. If the draft cannot proceed of course it will not proceed. Necessity knows no law. The Government cannot extend the time.

A. LINCOLN.

SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 13 (Serial No. 19), p. 599

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