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[Presidential authority to the Secretary of State to affix the seal to the conditional pardon of Joseph Anthony and J.H. Drabing].

01 October 1873

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

GLC00207

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Printed document signed

[Military commission of Edward O. C. Ord to Brigadier General of Volunteers]

January 28, 1862

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Lincoln's appointment of Ord, countersigned by Secretary of War Stanton. Ord was ordered east from California to assume his new command, and soon after won one of the Union's earliest victories at Dranesville, Virginia. Lincoln signed in full:...

GLC00208

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Poem

to Miss Anna McKnight

February 3, 1829

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

A poem in which he expresses his attachment to her and asks her to consider him a true and honest friend: "My pulses, mix'd emotions blend, unchang'd by wind or weather. Of lover-brother-father-friend, to take them all together." Adams was President...

GLC00209

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Header Record

Authority to affix the seal to pardon of William and Elijah McWhorter. [Decimalized .01-.03]

30 August 1877

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

Includes carte de visite and Signed pass to see counting of electoral college 2/10/1877.

GLC00212

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Autograph note signed

Order for Daniel Linder

circa December 26, 1863

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Lincoln proclaimed a pardon possibility for rebellious soldiers December 8, 1863, in his annual message to Congress. Daniel Linder, son of Usher F. Linder, an old friend of Lincoln in Chicago, was freed on Dec. 26, the date assumed for this document.

GLC00213