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Collection Reference Number GLC07746
From Archive Folder Unassociated Civil War Documents 1865 
Title General Orders no. 51
Date 15 April 1865
Author Welles, Gideon (1802-1878)  
Document Type Military document
Content Description Announcing the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Subjects Government and Civics  Lincoln's Cabinet  Reconstruction  
People Welles, Gideon (1802-1878)  Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)  
Theme The American Civil War; The Presidency; Reconstruction
Sub-collection Papers and Images of the American Civil War
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945