Richard Yates to Abraham Lincoln

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Novem 29 4

His Excellency Abraham Lincoln President & c Washington D.C.

Dear Sir: I would respectfully recommend and urge the promotion of Col. P Sidney Post, 59th Illinois Volenteers to the position of Brig. General. Col Post is the senior Colonel in the 4th Army Cops. and has as I am informed been highly recommended for promotion by Generals Sherman, Thomas, Stanley, [Rosecrans?], Wood, Davis and others. His long and faithful

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services, his ability and patriotism, his severe and honorable wound, the heroic gallantry of his regemint and the important services it has rendered under him make such a mark of favor both appropriate and deserved. As commander of a Brigade he has shown himself capable and efficient and has the name of an energetic and vigerous officer who is wholly devoted to the cause. His promotion will be a just tribute to Western valor, and a further recognition of the fact that the sons of Illinois have nobly sustained the government in the days of its peril and will be gratefully remembered by -

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Your Obedt Servt. Richd. Yates Governor of Ills