Rare letter by Abraham Lincoln from early Civil War era fetches $85K at Pennsylvania auction

A letter written by President Abraham Lincoln during the early part of the Civil War has been sold for $85,000 in Pennsylvania. The letter, previously unpublished, was addressed to Charles Ellet Jr., an American civil engineer and Union Army colonel who had met the president.

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