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Dated August 19, 1861, the short letter is addressed to Charles Ellet Jr., an American civil engineer and Union Army colonel, who had met the President and lobbied him for the creation of a civil engineering corps
The short, unpublished letter had been in the same private collection for at least a century before it was acquired by the Raab Collection in Pennsylvania earlier this year.
The short, unpublished letter had been in the same private collection for at least a century before it was acquired by the Raab Collection in Pennsylvania earlier this year.