Selected Correspondance of Abraham Lincoln 1865 To Schuyler Colfax
by Abraham Lincoln
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WASHINGTON, January 9, 1865.
HON. SCHUYLER COLFAX,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
SIR:--I transmit herewith the letter of the Secretary of War, with
accompanying report of the Adjutant-General, in reply to the
resolution of the House of Representatives, dated December 7, 1864,
requesting me "to communicate to the House the report made by Col.
Thomas M. Key of an interview between himself and General Howell Cobb
on the fourteenth [15th] day of June, 1862, on the banks of the
Chickahominy, on the subject of the exchange of prisoners of war."
I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
