How President Lincoln's scrawled note on the back of a
telegram saved a disabled boy from the army
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A letter from President Lincoln, in which he agrees to let a
14-year-old boy leave the Army, has gone on sale in Philadelphia.
The note, written two months before Lincoln was assassinated on April 15, 1865,
has been valued at $15,000.
In a twist of fate, Perry Harris was discharged from the
army on the day John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in Ford's Theater, Washington,
and less than a week after the civil war came to an end.