Lincoln, Abraham | The President thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated."

Lincoln, Abraham

Manuscript letter signed ("A. Lincoln") as sixteenth President, one page (250 x 200 mm) on a bifolium of blue-ruled Executive Mansion letterhead, Washington, D.C., 6 September 1864, to John J. Muir of Brooklyn, thanking Muir's son for his contribution to the Union cause, body of the letter in the hand of presidential secretary Edward D. Neill, docketed on the verso, "To Mothers brother."