United States | Abraham Lincoln's Civil War letter sold in Pennsylvania for USD 85,000

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

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