An Item for Abe Lincoln.

Galveston Weekly News
December 31, 1862
p. 1, c. 5

San Marcos, Texas
Dec. 15, 1862.

Ed. News:
Enclosed please find one hundred dollars, which I send as a contribution for the benefit of our soldiers, which you will please dispose of as follows:

Fifty dollars for Dr. Bryan's Hospital, located at Quitman, Mississippi. Fifty dollars for the use of Terry's Regiment of Texas Rangers.

Very respectfully,
O. P. Bowles.

[We have handed the above to E. H. Cushing, Esq., Acting Treasurer of the above funds.]

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