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Message from the President of the United States... [Pardoned Confederates]
1867/03/02
Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875
List of pardoned Confederates from 15 April 1865 to 2 March 1867.
GLC07723
1867/07/19
List of pardoned Confederates from 15 April 1865 to 8 July 1867.
GLC07724
Message from the President of the United States... [Pardon proclamation]
1869/01/19
Pardon proclamation justifying his constitutional right to pardon, noting similar proclamations from previous presidents.
GLC07725
Hon. Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States
February 1865
E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)
Photograph taken February 1865. President Lincoln is wearing a dark coat, vest, bowtie, and white shirt. Printed on the verso of the card: "prominent portraits no. 2969" Published by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., American and Foreign Stereoscopic...
GLC07734
[seated portrait of Abraham Lincoln]
February 9, 1864
Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896
Large oval seated photograph of President Lincoln taken for Mathew B. Brady. Albumen photograph on original mount with the Brady studio imprint. Hamilton/Ostendorf O-92.
GLC07735
[Albumen of Lewis Payne]
27 April 1865
Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882
Inscribed on verso: "Lewis Payne Conspirator. Hanged." Photograph shows Payne (also known as Lewis Powell) in wrist irons aboard the U.S.S. Saugus. The photograph is mounted on board.
GLC07738.01
[Albumen of Samuel Arnold]
Inscribed on verso: "Samuel Arnold. Conspirator. Imprisoned for life at Ft. Jefferson Fla. (Dry Tortuges) Pardoned by President Johnson. Released March 21, 1869." Photograph shows Arnold wearing a dark coat, vest, and tie; facing slightly to the...
GLC07738.02
[Albumen of George A. Atzerodt]
Inscribed on verso: "George A. Atzerodt Conspirator. Hanged." Photograph shows Atzerodt wearing a heavy coat and hat, imprisoned on the U.S.S. Saugus. The photograph is mounted on board.
GLC07738.03
[Albumen of Edward Spangler]
Inscribed on verso: "Edward Spangler. Conspirator." Photograph shows Spangler in wrist irons imprisoned aboard the U.S.S. Saugus. Spangler is wearing a dark heavy coat and is facing slighlty to the right. The photograph is mounted on board.
GLC07738.04
[Albumen of David Herold]
Inscribed on verso: "David E. Herold Conspirator. Hanged July 7, 1865. Was with Booth in the barn, but surrendered and came out before the barn was set on fire." Photograph shows Herold wearing coat, vest, and tie, in wrist irons, aboard the U.S.S...
GLC07738.05
Unknown suspect
April 1865
Photograph of a suspect later identified as Captain Joao Celestino. Photograph shows Celestion wearing a heavy coat and facing slightly to the left. The Photograph is mounted on board.
GLC07738.06
Photograph of a suspect later identified as Ernest Hartman Richter. Shows Richter sitting with his hands folded and wearing a coat aboard the U.S.S. Saugus. The photograph is mounted on board.
GLC07738.07
[Albumen of Michael O'Laughlin]
Inscribed on verso: "Michael O'Laughlin." Shows O'Laughlin in wrist irons, wearing a jacket, vest, and tie. He is facing slightly to the left and is imprisoned aboard the U.S.S. Saugus. The photograph is mounted on board.
GLC07738.08
Inscribed on verso: : Michael O'Laughlin Conspirator. Imprisoned for life. Died of yellow fever Sept. 23, 1867 at 7 a.m." Photograph shows O'Laughlin in wrist irons, wearing a dark jacket, vest, tie, and hat. He is facing right and is imprisoned...
GLC07738.09
[Albumen of a military commission]
circa 1865
Photograph enclosed in a letter from Lew Wallace to A. E. Allen. The letter (GLC07740.01) identifies the individuals in the portrait as (from left to right) General Thomas M. Harris, General David O. Hunter, General Augustine V. Kautz, Brevet...
GLC07740.02
Endorsement on 3 p. Thomas Breck ALS to Charles Sumner re: leniency for soldier
1862/05/21
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. V 1861 - 1862, p. 228
GLC07742
to C.C. McPherson re: Washington, D.C. after Lincoln's assassination
1865/04/15
Bradford, Peleg, fl. 1865
GLC07745
to Lorenzo P. Thomas re: four accounts of capture of Herold and death of Booth
1865/05/29
Doherty, Edward P., fl. 1865
Forney, a pro-slavery candidate, was "in favor of the maintenance and faithful execution of the fugitive slave laws...and of the suppression of all further agitation of the slavery question."
GLC07747.01
re: eyewitness account of capture of Herold and death of Booth
1865/05/22
McQuade, William, fl. 1865
GLC07747.02
Texas amnesty oath signed by Confederate soldier
1865/07/07
Waggoner, J.F., fl. 1865
GLC07716
18 Civil War dispatches, extracts, and general orders issued by U.S. Navy
1861/11-1862/06
United States. Navy
Topics include payment of persons called "contrabands", British ships attempting to run the blockade, Naval intelligence, sanitation during the "hot and sickly" season in the south, and legal requirements with regard to captured vessels. Probably...
GLC07717
A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States, Vol. I
1868
Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 1812-1883
GLC07719
[Albumen of John Howard's livery & sale stables]
April 14, 1865
Inscribed on verso: "the livery stable from which the horse was hired that Booth ran away after shooting President Lincoln April 14, 1865." Also includes #7767 and a stamp for Kemp, Photographers, 137 S. Broad St., Trenton, N.J. The photograph is...
GLC07736
[Albumen of asassination sympathizers]
April 1865 ca.
Image of seventeen men lined up outdoors, ten of with are carrying placards around their necks that read "assassin sympathizer." The ten men are in the custody of armed soldiers. The photograph is mounted on a sheet of construction paper.
GLC07737
[Lincoln assassination conspirators]
Nine large plate albumen prints of the Lincoln assassination conspirators. Secret Service head Colonel Lafayette C. Baker selected Gardner to take the photographs of the conspirators while in they were in custody, awaiting trial aboard the U.S.S...
GLC07738
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