An unpublished letter from Abraham Lincoln written during the Civil War is going up for sale. The note, written to Union Colonel Charles Ellet Jr. in August 1861, was a response to a request for a new civil engineering corps to bolster the defenses of Washington, DC against the Confederate threat. The letter is expected to fetch around 85-thousand dollars. See more, including the letter, below.
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