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- Collection: Trading with the Enemy: Cotton Permits, Smuggling, and Speculation in the Civil War
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Cotton Report [With Endorsement by Lincoln], February 16, 1863
In this report from 1863, an unknown advisor wrote to Lincoln outlining the benefits of continuing to trade for cotton, as well as precautions that would minimize the risk to the war effort. Lincoln endorsed the back of the report as "A. cotten…