Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Commodore George W. Graham to Lieutenant Colonel John A. Rawlins, probably July 3, 1863

Can you send me early in the morning Copy of declaration of Independence not one Copy here[.]
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[Rawlins drafted his reply on the bottom of this telegram:]

"I will if I can find one"

SOURCE: John Y. Simon, Editor, The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, Volume 8, p. 470

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