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Title: Letter to General David Hunter
Creator: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, author
Contributor: Hunter, David, 1802-1886, addressee
Date Created and/or Issued: 1863-04-01
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: United States Civil War
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Description: Single page letter from Abraham Lincoln to Gen. David Hunter in which the president emphasizes his support for African American troops.
Following President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, African Americans joined the Union Army for the first time. In a letter to General David Hunter, Lincoln clearly states the starkly opposing views of South and North regarding this critical development: “It is important to the enemy that such a force shall not take shape, and grow, and thrive, in the South; and in precisely the same proportion, it is important to us that it shall….The enemy will make extra efforts to destroy them; and we should do the same to preserve and increase them.”
Type: text
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 p. ; 24.7 x 20.3 cm (9 3/4 x 8 in.)
Identifier: mssHM 23991
6760
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll6/id/5834
Language: English
Subject: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Correspondence
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Sources
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African American troops
Letters (correspondence) United States Civil War, 1861-1865. (aat)
Letters (correspondence) United States 19th century. (aat)
Source: Lincoln File
United States Civil War, Huntington Digital Library

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