LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President . Autograph endorsement signed ("A.Lincoln") as President, to SECRETARY OF WAR EDWIN M. STANTON, [Washington, D.C.], 2 March 1864. 2 lines plus signature and dateline, written on the verso of an Autograph letter signed from Mrs. A.H. Hoge, co-founder of the Sanitary Commission, tears at horizontal folds, endorsement panel lightly browned . A CO-FOUNDER OF THE SANITARY COMMISSION REQUESTS THAT HER SON BE PROMOTED TO GENERAL Lincoln passes along Mrs. Hoge's request without recommendation or comment: "Submitted to the Sec[retary] of War & Gen[eral]-in-Chief..." Not in Basler, and apparently unpublished. Mrs. Hoge, in her letter, asked the President "...to remember my son's name, George B. Hoge, Col[onel] of the 113th Ill[inois], as one of those, whom you will request, to have appointed as Brigadier..." Mrs. Hoge was the co-originator with Mary Livermore of the Sanitary Commission, which played a crucial role in raising funds for medicine and nursing for the Union soldiers wounded or stricken by disease. Her solicitations on behalf of her son were successful: George Blaikie Hoge was appointed Brigadier General, and he commanded at Corinth from October 1863 until January 1864. Not in Basler, and apparently unpublished.
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President . Autograph endorsement signed ("A.Lincoln") as President, to SECRETARY OF WAR EDWIN M. STANTON, [Washington, D.C.], 2 March 1864. 2 lines plus signature and dateline, written on the verso of an Autograph letter signed from Mrs. A.H. Hoge, co-founder of the Sanitary Commission, tears at horizontal folds, endorsement panel lightly browned . A CO-FOUNDER OF THE SANITARY COMMISSION REQUESTS THAT HER SON BE PROMOTED TO GENERAL Lincoln passes along Mrs. Hoge's request without recommendation or comment: "Submitted to the Sec[retary] of War & Gen[eral]-in-Chief..." Not in Basler, and apparently unpublished. Mrs. Hoge, in her letter, asked the President "...to remember my son's name, George B. Hoge, Col[onel] of the 113th Ill[inois], as one of those, whom you will request, to have appointed as Brigadier..." Mrs. Hoge was the co-originator with Mary Livermore of the Sanitary Commission, which played a crucial role in raising funds for medicine and nursing for the Union soldiers wounded or stricken by disease. Her solicitations on behalf of her son were successful: George Blaikie Hoge was appointed Brigadier General, and he commanded at Corinth from October 1863 until January 1864. Not in Basler, and apparently unpublished.
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