Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) [Presidential note to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton asking that Charles F. Johnson be paroled].
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00206.01 Author/Creator: Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Autograph note signed Date: 01 July 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.
Notes: Basler 5: 300, basing the text on a Parke-Bernet catalog. Basler notes that "Johnson has not been further identified, but he was presumably from Senator Lazarus W. Powell's state, Kentucky."
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Sec. of War please oblige Senator Powell, by giving the limits of Cleveland to Charles F. Johnson; on his parole. The Senator pledging me that the [2] parole will not be violated. He is a prisoner now at, or near Sandusky.
A. Lincoln
July 1. 1862
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