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Document signed

Edict.

14 April 1865

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Granting amnesty to a group of confederate prisoners provided they take oath (one of the last official acts before his assisination), under Andrew Johnson, ES,4/12/1865.

GLC08091
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Document signed

Order to affix the seal

21 March 1873

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Order to affix the seal to a warrant for the pardon of Leon McLemon

GLC08114
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Document signed

Pardon of Prince L. Hudgins

02 March 1865

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Pardon of Prince L. Hudgins, under indictment in Missouri for conspiring against the government of the U.S.

GLC08163
Collection Item
Document signed

Grant for presidential pardon

19 June 1962

Kennedy, Robert Francis, 1925-1968

Grant for presidential pardon to Charles Henry Durner, who was convicted of falsifying documents. With legal files.

GLC08173
Collection Item
Header Record

[Collection of 3 letters regarding Lieutenant Frank Williams of the 13th North Carolina, a Confederate parolee captured at Gettysburg]. Decimalized.

June 1864

See descriptions in GLC08247.01-.03

GLC08247
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Autograph letter signed

to Conrad Baker

17 June 1864

Meriweather, J.B., fl. 1864

Meriweather writes to Colonel Baker about the 7 March 1864 arrest of Lieutenant Frank Williams of the 13th North Carolina, a parolee captured at Gettysburg, for disloyal conduct, including "using the most obscene and vulgar language towards the...

GLC08247.01
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Edward M. Stanton

27 June 1864

Harlan, James, fl. 1864

Senator Harlan requests that Secretary of War Stanton make sure the case of Lieutenant Frank Williams be given special consideration. He was captured at Gettysburg and provided information that prevented the escape of some other Confederates,...

GLC08247.03
Collection Item
Document signed

[Presidential pardon of Richard Hayden, who was convicted of destroying letters stolen from the mail].

25 May 1863

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Pardon signed by Lincoln and countersigned by Secretary of State Seward. Hayden was in an "advanced stage of pulmonary consumption" at the time of the pardon.

GLC08253
Collection Item
Autograph note signed

"I have concluded to issue a pardon in the case of Percy Walker" (Former U.S. Congressman from Alabama, and brother of Confederate Secretary of War.)

30 September 1865

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

GLC08287
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Lucy Knox

22 July 1776

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Indicates that he found an indentured servant, Thomas Eliot, for Lucy (see Lucy's request for one in GLC02437.00383) and has purchased three years of his labor. Mentions that Captain Sebastian Bauman's family "have gone into the Jersies" and asks...

GLC02437.00385

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