Lincoln auction at Sotheby's next Wednesday

[Angela]

(05-20-2016 01:50 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(05-20-2016 11:34 AM)Angela Wrote:  The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is, for some reason, parting with one of the three existing Manuscript Copies of the Thirteenth amendment to the United States Constitution, signed and endorsed by Lincoln.

Does anyone know why Lincoln signed the Thirteenth Amendment? Did he know he was not required to do so? (I may be wrong, but I think it's the only amendment signed by a President.)

I have never read a comment he made concerning this - but maybe there is something in the Hay/Nicolay books?