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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 to Edward Bates

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00482 Author/Creator: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: January 13, 1864 Pagination: 1 p. ; 19 x 13 cm. Order a Copy

Request to Attorney General Edward Bates for him to have made and sent to him a pardon for Benjamin C. Robertson of Dickson County, Tennessee.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Bates, Edward, 1793-1869
Robertson, Benjamin C., fl. 1864

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