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Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875 [Pass for Eliza C. Skidmore and her agents]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02779.01 Author/Creator: Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Manuscript letter signed Date: 29 April 1865 Pagination: 2 p. : Height: 34.5 cm, Width: 21.2 cm Order a Copy

Declares that Eliza C. Skidmore of Washington, D.C. has products of the "insurrectionary states" and has made arrangements to bring the products within Union military lines to sell them to agents authorized to purchase them on behalf of the United States. Orders that these products "be free from seizure detention or forfeiture," and that "officers of the Army and Navy and Civil Officers of the Government will observe this order." Requires these officers to provide Eliza C. Skidmore a means of transportation as well as "free and unmolested passage through the lines, and safe conduct within the lines while going for or returning with said products or while the said products are in store awaiting transportation for the purposes aforesaid."

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875
Skidmore, Eliza C., fl. 1865

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