A "primary document," that is, an original letter Abraham Lincoln sent to Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck, was discovered recently during a routine search through the latter's papers at the National Archives:
The discovery of the letter was made on May 14 as Mr. Plante prepared for the arrival of a film crew working on a Discovery Channel documentary about Gettysburg. Searching in a collection of Halleck’s papers, Mr. Plante spotted the familiar signature.
"I was looking for something else," said Mr. Plante, who specializes in military history. "Frankly, where I found it was in an obscure place," he said, adding, "I was seeing everyday stuff and turned the page, and there was a Lincoln document."
Lincoln...as in the real Lincoln, not the two-bit, snake-eyed dipshit currently occupying the Oval Office.
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