Letter to Edwards Pierrepont, 2 December 1875.

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Letter to Edwards Pierrepont, 2 December 1875.

Letter to the U.S. Attorney General expressing support for the confirmation by the Senate of General Robert W. Healy as U.S. Marshal for the southern and middle districts of Alabama.

1 folded sheet (2 p.) ; 24.7 cm.

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Healy, Robert Wallace, 1836-1912.

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Healy enlisted inthe 58th Illinois regiment in 1861, then rose tobecome its commander. After the Civil War, he became interested in southern cotton industry, and moved to Alabama where he became a railroad purchasing agent. He also served as United States marshal for the Middle and Southern Judicial Districts of Alabama, 1867-77, and as chairman of the state's Republican executive committee, 1872-4. In 1889, Healy moved to Chattanooga, Tenn., where he engaged in various business activities. ...

Woods, William B. (William Burnham), 1824-1887

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Woods served as judge of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court (1869-1880) and an asssociate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1880-1887.) From the description of Letter to Edwards Pierrepont, 2 December 1875. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 235928468 ...

Pierrepont, Edwards, 1817-1892

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Lawyer, of New York, N.Y., U.S. attorney general, and ambassador to Great Britain. From the description of Papers of Edwards Pierrepont, 1847-1900. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81338859 A prominent New York lawyer and politician and Democrat who was against secession and supportive of the use of force to protect the Union. President Lincoln appointed him to try the cases of those who had been imprisoned in the North for suspected disloyalty to the Union cause and after the...