Lincoln, Abraham . Collected works : The Abraham Lincoln Association, Springfield, Illinois.
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To Joseph G. Totten1


November 2, 1861

November 2, 1861

   If Genl Totten & myself are both alive, and in place in June 1862, & he Genl T. will remind me of it, I then wish to give a Cadetship to a son of Professor Mahan. A LINCOLN

   Nov 2. 1861


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1 Copy, DNA WR RG 94, U.S. Military Academy, 1861, Box 79, No. 558. Frederick A. Mahan, son of Dennis H. Mahan, professor of civil and military engineering at West Point, was not appointed until July 1, 1863.