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Telegram from Abraham Lincoln to Lt. Gen. Ulysses Grant at City Point, Virginia

Record Group 107: Records of the Office of the Secretary of WarSeries: Telegrams Sent and Received By The War Department Central Telegraph Office.

[handwritten in upper right corner] 133

[handwritten and underlined upper left side] "Cypher"

[typeset letterhead] Executive mansion,

Washington, [handwritten] August 17. [typeset] , 1864.

[handwritten] Lieut. Gen. Grant [blue stamp "PRINTED WAR RECORDS 1861-1865"]

City Point VA. [handwritten check mark]

I have seen your dispatch express

ing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are.

neither am I willing. Hold on with a bull-dog

grip, and chew and choke, as much as possible.

[signed] A. Lincoln

1030 am / T [red stamp illegible] 131 / 145

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