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- GLC#
- GLC05968
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- March 11, 1862
- Author/Creator
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Title
- [Presidential authorization to the Secretary of State to affix the Seal of the United States to the pardon of Nathiel W. Watkins].
- Pagination
- 1 p. : blank Height: 25 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Watkins was the half-brother of Henry Clay, who had commanded a corps of Confederate Missouri Guards at the beginning of the Civil War. Document is perforated for inclusion in binder.
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