Note iv-10 — Chapter IV · DOLLARS AND CENTS
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The nature of these kindnesses may be inferred from the following despatch:—
Executive Mansion, December 26, 1863.
Hon. U. F. Linder, Chicago, Ill.:
Your son Dan has just left me, with my order to the Secretary of War, to administer to him the oath of allegiance, discharge him, and send him to you.
A. Lincoln.
(Works, ix, 275; see, also, ibid., 272.)