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Chapter 221
Telegram to Colonel Fasleigh
Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C., December 8, 1864.
COLONEL FASLEIGH, Louisville, Ky.:
I am appealed to in behalf of a man by the name of Frank Fairbairns, said to have been for a long time and still in prison, without any definite ground stated. How is it?
A. LINCOLN.