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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidential note to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00206.01 Author/Creator: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Autograph note signed Date: July 1, 1862 Pagination: 1 note ; 20 x 16 cm. Order a Copy

Note from Abraham Lincoln asking that Charles F. Johnson be given parole in Cleveland. Johnson is unidentified, but presumably from Senator Lazarus W. Powell's state, Kentucky. Accompanied by photograph (GLC00206.02) of Lincoln and Tad, reading (with tax stamp on back). Printed Basler 5: 300, quoting Parke-Bernet catalog 905 of 1947.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869
Powell, L.W. (Lazarus Whitehead), 1812-1867
Johnson, Charles F., fl. 1862

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