Abraham Lincoln to John Dix, January 14, 1863

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Source citation:

Abraham Lincoln to John Dix, January 14, 1863 in Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (8 vols., New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 6: 56, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/.

Author:

Lincoln, Abraham

Recipient:

Dix, John Adams

Type:

Letter

Date Certainty:

Exact

Transcriber:

Transcription adapted from The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953), edited by Roy P. Basler

Adapted by Matthew Pinsker, Dickinson College

Transcription date:

07/05/2013

Transcription

The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.

Private & confidential

Executive Mansion, Washington,

January 14, 1863.

Major General Dix

My dear Sir:

The proclamation has been issued. We were not succeeding---at best, were progressing too slowly---without it. Now, that we have it, and bear all the disadvantage of it, (as we do bear some in certain quarters) we must also take some benefit from it, if practicable. I therefore will thank you for your well considered opinion whether Fortress-Monroe, and York-Town, one or both, could not, in whole or in part, be garrisoned by colored troops, leaving the white forces now necessary at those places, to be employed elsewhere.

Yours very truly

A. LINCOLN

Major Topics

United States Colored Troops

Places

White House, Washington, DC

Hampton, VA

Fort Monroe, VA

Yorktown, VA

Abraham Lincoln to John Dix, January 14, 1863

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