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[David Lockmiller]

(10-14-2024 08:53 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  The letter was written on May 3, 1861.

SOURCE: Lincoln's Sons by Ruth Painter Randall.

I thought that I would add the following historical footnote from Professor Burlingame's (Abraham Lincoln: A Life, Vol. TWO, pages 141- 142):

On April 19, {1861], the anniversary of the 1775 battle of Lexington where Massachusetts men were the first to be killed in the Revolutionary War, members of the Sixth Massachusetts regiment were the first to die in the Civil War when a mob attacked them as they passed through Baltimore. . . .

When the Massachusetts Sixth arrive in Washington, Lincoln shook hands with every member of the regiment and warmly greeted its commander, Colonel Edward F. Jones: "Thank God, you have come; for if you had not, Washington would have been in the hands in the rebels before morning. Your brave boys have saved the capital. God bless them."