Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869 to Edwards Pierrepont and J. B. Cutting

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GLC#
GLC04452.03-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
13 May 1865
Author/Creator
Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869
Title
to Edwards Pierrepont and J. B. Cutting
Place Written
Washington, District of Columbia
Pagination
2 p. : docket ; Height: 20.5 cm, Width: 13.5 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Clerical telegram stating Stanton has "proof of express personal malice against me by Greeley and Believe that I can establish a combination between him & others which may end in accomplishing my death as it did against Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Seward." Wants Pierrepont to prosecute Horace Greeley for what Stanton sees as Greeley's attempt to incite others to murder him. Stanton wrote this telegram in Washington and it was transcribed by the American Telegraph Company in New York.

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