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Lincoln's famous letter to Greeley on ending the Civil War...



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September 06, 1862

FRANK LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED, New York, Sept. 6, 1862 

* Famous Abraham Lincoln letter
* "A Prayer of Twenty Millions" reply
* Horace Greeley


The front page features a print of: "Recruiting in Phila. for the Bucktail Pennsylvania Regiment".
Of special note is the historic letter headed: "The Union, First, Last and For Ever". This was one of the more famous letters from Abraham Lincoln, being his reply to Horace Greeley's editorial of August 20, "A Prayer of Twenty Millions", which urged emancipation. Lincoln replies in his letter with his famous quote: "...My paramount object...is to save the Union, and it is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it...", signed in type: A. LINCOLN. The full text of the letter is seen in the photos. A significant document expressing Lincoln's views on slavery from the middle of the Civil War.
Prints inside include: "The Campaign o the Rapidan--Union Soldiers Burying the Dead...After the Battle of Cedar Mountain"; another full page action print of the Battle of Cedar Mountain; a two-print doublepg. centerfold showing: "...Gen. McClellan Crossing the Chickahominy..." and "Reception of Brig. Gen. Corcoran ...at Castle Garden." Also a full pg: "Campaign on the Rapidan...Battle of Cedar Mountain".
Complete in 16 pages, very nice condition.

Category: The Civil War