Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869 to Edwards Pierrepoint

GLC04452.02

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GLC#
GLC04452.02-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
12 May 1865
Author/Creator
Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869
Title
to Edwards Pierrepoint
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 requesting Pierrpont prosecute Horace Greeley for "persistent effort the last four (4) weeks to incite assassins to finish wheir work by murdering me." Asks him to "secure copies of all Tribunes published since the night after the President's murder. Stanton wrote this telegram in Washington and it was transcribed by the American Telegraph Company in New York.

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