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<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>ABRAHAM LINCOLN </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'><BR><BR></span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial; text-transform:uppercase'>Lincoln Charges Banks To Return Louisiana To Union</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'><BR><BR>(1809-1865). Sixteenth President of the United States (1860-65) who led the nation through the Civil War. War-date AES “<i>A. Lincoln</i>” on a clipped envelope address panel “<i>To the President of the United States. Washington, D.C.</i>” imprinted “Headquarters, Department of the Gulf, Official Business.” and signed by Major General </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>Nathaniel P. Banks</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>, penned “<i>N. P. Banks</i>” (1816-1894), military governor of Louisiana. Lincoln writes, “<i>Received, this 21st of Dec, 1863, of Lieut. Loring, the dispatches of Gen. Banks, dated the 6th Inst. & which were enclosed herein.</i>..” Accompanied by a clipped explanatory ANS “<i>F. W. Loring</i>”, 7”x1½”, in full, “<i>The above dispatches concerned the return of Louisiana (by a vote of a new state convention) into the Union - (the first state to come back). I was at this date A.D.C. to Genl W. H. Emory of the 19th. Corps; & going north on a short leave of absence was made by Genl. Banks commanding the Deptmt. a special bearer of dispatches with instructions to deliver them only into the President’s own hand. Which I did at the White House at a very early hour of the morning</i>.” By the summer of 1863, with much of Louisiana in Union hands, Lincoln set in motion his plan for its reentry into the Union, depending heavily upon the generals in the state, particularly Banks, to carry it out. When the process was unexplainably delayed, Lincoln sent an angry letter to Banks on November 5th pushing for action. The delay caused Lincoln to adopt his “ten percent” plan in the name of expediency, but it also met with bitter political recriminations and delay. On December 6th Banks, smarting from Lincoln’s censure, wrote to the President expressing his surprise that Lincoln had “attached responsibility to my actions in regard to the execution of your wishes.” Noting the political nature of any reconstruction, Banks asked “How then can I be held responsible for the failure to satisfy your expectations?” Lincoln responded to Banks on December 24 offering his apologies. Unfortunately, still concerned that he disappointed the president, Banks adopted a reconstruction process that could be accomplished more quickly but actually created further delay by alienating many unionists. Louisiana did not officially reenter the Union until after Lincoln’s death, in May 1865. Envelope panel evidences vertical folds not affecting the endorsement or signatures, slight staining in margins, some soiling, o/w VG. Loring note is mounted to a larger sheet of paper.</span></p>
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