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- GLC#
- GLC02536
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- December 9, 1863
- Author/Creator
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Title
- Amnesty proclamation and third annual message of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States ...
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 20 p. : Height: 22 cm, Width: 15 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Title continues, " ... read in Congress, December 9, 1863." Early printing of the Amnesty Oath of December 8, 1863 which offered pardons to Confederates who would take a loyalty oath to the Constitution and to the Union of States. His third annual message presented a program for Reconstruction for the first time. With bookplate and deaccession stamp of Minnesota Historical Society on front cover.
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