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<date value='1850-02-20'>Wednesday, February 20, 1850.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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Lincoln, Richard Yates, W. Pickering, and others sign address to
secretary of war recommending Capt. Napoleon Koscialowski, Polish
revolutionary and Mexican War soldier, as major of proposed regiment.
Lincoln also writes personal recommendation for Koscialowski to
present to secretary.
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<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A122' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George W. Crawford</xref>, [20 February 1850], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:74-75; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A123' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to George W. Crawford</xref>, 20 February 1850, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:76.</bibl>
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Lincoln buys $1.50 in merchandise.
<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>
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