Women and Military Issues
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Appointment of Gabriel R. Paul
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Essential Questions:
What does this letter teach us about the type of Commander in Chief Lincoln was?
Was Lincoln simply joking with this memorandum?
Essential Questions:
What does this letter teach us about the type of Commander in Chief Lincoln was?
Was Lincoln simply joking with this memorandum?
Executive Mansion, Washington. Aug. 23, 1862.
To-day, Mrs. Major Paul, of the Regular Army calls and urges the appointment of her husband as a Brig. Genl. She is a saucy woman and I am afraid she will keep tormenting till I may have to do it.
To-day, Mrs. Major Paul, of the Regular Army calls and urges the appointment of her husband as a Brig. Genl. She is a saucy woman and I am afraid she will keep tormenting till I may have to do it.
Document Source: Memorandum: Appointment of Gabriel R. Paul, Aug 23rd, 1862 in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln: Volume V. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/
Image Source: The House Divided Project: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College. http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/14629
Image Source: The House Divided Project: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College. http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/14629