Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Secretary of War Stanton, 1863.

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Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Secretary of War Stanton, 1863.

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This collection contains a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, dated January 9, 1863. The letter discusses the paroles of William Pryor of Newcastle, KY and J. OʹHara of Covington. Lincoln requests that while the prisoners are on parole in Cincinnati that they be allowed to visit Kentucky. Pryor and OʹHara may have been put in jail because of their Southern sympathies.

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Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Pryor, William T.

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Powell, L. W. (Lazarus Whitehead), 1812-1867

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OʹHara, James.

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Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 1814-1869

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American jurist and politician. From the description of Letter signed : "War Department," to William Pitt Fessenden, 1862 May 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270580939 U.S. secretary of war 1862-1868. From the description of Telegram (draft) : ms. : Washington, D.C., to Ulysses S. Grant, Appomattox C.H., Va., 1865 Apr. 9. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122380613 Secretary of War; Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. ...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...