Chase, Salmon P.:

LETTER SIGNED, AS SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, 21 APRIL 1864, TO SECRETARY OF WAR EDWIN M. STANTON, CONCERNING "TRANSPORTATION OF GOVERNMENT STORES ON UNSEAWORTHY VESSELS."

Washington DC: 1864. Single page, written on recto only, 8" x 10." On Treasury Department letterhead. Fine.

Lincoln's Treasury Secretary, later his appointee as Chief Justice of the United States, writes to Stanton: "Sir | I transmit herewith, for such action as you think proper, copy of a letter of the Surveyor at Louisville and of accompanying report of Agency Aid Smith, relative to the transportation of Government stores on unseaworthy boats." Item #38746

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