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- GLC#
- GLC03328
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- December 27, 1862
- Author/Creator
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Title
- [Presidential pardon of William Fugitt, who in the District of Columbia had been convicted of horse stealing in July 1860].
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 42 cm, Width: 28 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Pardoned by Abraham Lincoln near the end of his sentence since he was a youth of 17 years at the time of his conviction, he was believed to be a tool of older criminals, and at the petition of citizens. Countersigned by Secretary of State William H. Seward.
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