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LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1965). Autograph endorsement signed ("A. Lincoln"), [Washington], 15 March 1865.
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LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1965). Autograph endorsement signed ("A. Lincoln"), [Washington], 15 March 1865.
One page (285 x 215mm), accomplished on the verso of a partly printed document, a draft notice dated Washington, 28 February 1865, (toned at extreme margins, weak folds repaired with paper).
A month before his assassination, Abraham Lincoln grants a thirty-day extension to allow a drafted Washington street-car conductor to obtain a substitute. Thomas Stone, who had been ordered to report for duty on 10 March 1865, obtained a five-day extension by a major in the Veteran Reserve Corps the day he was to enlist. Five days later, he obtained an additional five-day extension as well as additional time from Lincoln, who endorsed the verso: "Allow this man thirty days time. A. Lincoln March 15, 1865." Accordingly, the major granted an additional twenty-five days "on order of His Excellency the President." According to a notice in the Washington papers, on the 7th of March 1865, a group of prominent citizens organized a benefit concerto for "Geo. S. Donn and Thomas Stone, drafted conductors of the 7th street railway." Both men were described as "men with families, and every way deserving of the aid of our citizens" (Evening Star, Washington, 7 March 1865, p. 3).
One page (285 x 215mm), accomplished on the verso of a partly printed document, a draft notice dated Washington, 28 February 1865, (toned at extreme margins, weak folds repaired with paper).
A month before his assassination, Abraham Lincoln grants a thirty-day extension to allow a drafted Washington street-car conductor to obtain a substitute. Thomas Stone, who had been ordered to report for duty on 10 March 1865, obtained a five-day extension by a major in the Veteran Reserve Corps the day he was to enlist. Five days later, he obtained an additional five-day extension as well as additional time from Lincoln, who endorsed the verso: "Allow this man thirty days time. A. Lincoln March 15, 1865." Accordingly, the major granted an additional twenty-five days "on order of His Excellency the President." According to a notice in the Washington papers, on the 7th of March 1865, a group of prominent citizens organized a benefit concerto for "Geo. S. Donn and Thomas Stone, drafted conductors of the 7th street railway." Both men were described as "men with families, and every way deserving of the aid of our citizens" (Evening Star, Washington, 7 March 1865, p. 3).