Petition to Abraham Lincoln for exchange of officers held as prisoners of war in Texas, 1864.

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Petition to Abraham Lincoln for exchange of officers held as prisoners of war in Texas, 1864.

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Petition with approximately 3,000 signatures calling for Lincoln to take immediate steps to have Isaac S. Burrell and other officers of the 42nd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment exchanged and returned home from their imprisonment following surrender in 1863 in Texas.

1 v. (78 p.)

Boston Athenaeum

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