Saturday, January 18, 2014

Abraham Lincoln to Major General John Pope, November 10, 1862

EXECUTIVE MANSION,
Washington, November 10, 1862.

Major-General POPE, Saint Paul, Minn.:

Your dispatch giving the names of 300 Indians condemned to death is received. Please forward as soon as possible the full and complete record of their convictions; and if the record does not fully indicate the more guilty and influential of the culprits, please have a careful statement made on these points and forwarded to me. Send all by mail.

 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. 787

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