2008-09
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A nice Northern politician's, 2pp. 4to., written in ink by a certain G. H. Tucker, on State of New Hampshire, executive department letter head, Concord, [N. H.], Sept. 21, 1862. In part: "…Nothing has been done about organizing our nine Months men, nor will there be till next week. Yesterday the Govr. & council & the Adju. Genl. were all away and I 'run the old machine' alone & had my hands full. The Govr. will be gone three or four days this week. The Northern Govrs. have a convention about which mum is the word. Say nothing about it. We send off a Regt. tomorrow & one Thursday. But what good does it to send off Regts. if we lose as we have this last week, 15000 more prisoners & 10,000 killed & wounded & nothing accomplished?….". The meeting to which Tucker refers was the later referred to as the "Loyal War Governors' Conference held on September 24 and 25, 1862 at Altoona, Pennsylvania. With the war effort going badly for Lincoln, this meeting provided him much needed support from the northern states. VG.
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