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Lincoln's Last Letters to Alton

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Finally, as President, Lincoln sent several letters and telegrams to generals in St. Louis and Secretary of Ward Edmund Stanton to release prisoners from the military prison at Alton. These letters were his last communication to a city with which Abraham Lincoln was historically linked.

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Reprinted from
Bluff City Profiles Alton, Illinois 1837-1987 Sesquicentennial Commemorative Book
Lincoln Had Many Ties to Alton
by Darryl Short

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