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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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