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- GLC#
- GLC09326.03
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- circa June 1865
- Author/Creator
- Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875
- Title
- [Amnesty Proclamation]
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 21 p. :
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Full printing of the oath with several circular letters appended. [The proclamation states the terms on which the citizens of the Southern states could be restored to their civil rights; Johnson's terms were much more stringent than Lincoln's, excluding 14 classes of prominent Confederates from taking the oath.] Housed in folder with .01 and .02.
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