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- GLC#
- GLC07135
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 1864/01/14
- Author/Creator
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Title
- Affix seal to the pardon of Confederate officer Benjamin C. Robertson
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 25.1 cm, Width: 20.2 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Robertson was a Confederate officer from Tennessee. Lincoln had requested the pardon from Attorney General Edward Bates the day before (see Basler, 2d suppl. 87). The circumstances for the pardon are unknown. Unfortunately Robertson died before receiving the pardon.
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