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Edwin M. Stanton from Simon Cameron, Apr. 20, 1862

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Title	Edwin M. Stanton from Simon Cameron, Apr. 20, 1862
Creator	Cameron, Simon, 1799-1889
Description	Letter from former Secretary of War Simon Cameron requesting Stanton's assistance in helping to prove his innocence against charges of fraud via mutilation of treasury bills, in relation to the purchasing of arms.
Date	1862
Subject - LCA	Cameron, Simon, 1799-1889 Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869 Boker, George H. (George Henry), 1823-1890 Holt, Joseph, 1807-1894 United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 United States--Politics and government--19th century Correspondence
Geographic Terms	Washington (D.C.)
Source	Civil War & Slavery Collection (1-4383)
Rights	For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact Grand Valley State University Special Collections at collections@gvsu.edu
Publisher	Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401
Type	text
Format	text/jp2
Identifier	CW1-4383
Local collection	Abraham Lincoln, Civil War and Slavery

Title	Page 1
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Publisher	Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401
Transcript	[Page 1] [?] 20 April ‘62 My dear Sir , I will thank you to direct the ordinance officer to send me without delay to this place, a copy of the contract made with Boker, for guns, with his directions for working it; and also, to find me a copy of Mr. Holt’s report thereon, which I see commented upon to my discredit in the newspapers. Knowing that I did no wrong, I am not willing to leave the country without trying to convince my loyal fellow citizens, of the integrity as well as wisdom of my conduct, in all related to furnishing our soldiers with arms often my predeccesors had inferred them to be
Local collection	Abraham Lincoln, Civil War and Slavery

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