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 The letter, previously unpublished, was addressed to Charles Ellet Jr., an American civil engineer and Union Army colonel who had met the president.
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The short, unpublished letter had been in the same private collection for at least a century before it was acquired by the Raab Collection in Pennsylvania earlier this year.
The short, unpublished letter had been in the same private collection for at least a century before it was acquired by the Raab Collection in Pennsylvania earlier this year.