James A. Garfield correspondence with citizens of Freedom, 1865 March 17-April 7

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James A. Garfield correspondence with citizens of Freedom, 1865 March 17-April 7

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Consists of two autograph letters signed. The first, dated 17 March 1865, is a letter from citizens of Freedom Township, Portage County, Ohio, to James A. Garfield on the subject of his vote and speech in Congress supporting the draft. The second, dated 7 April 1865 from Hiram, Ohio, is Garfield's lengthy response in which he outlines the "radical difference of opinion" between them on the subject of the draft and his obligations as a U.S. Representative. The signers of the citizens of Freedom letter are: E.S.M. Kneeland, C.A. Thayer, John Wheelock, Lyman Bryant, Atwell Bryant, J.B. Hamilton, W.M. Potter, P.D. Larkom, Oliver Burrows, J.B. Kellogg, J.W. Streator, T.G. Williams, Henry Myers, Wm. N. Williams, H.I. Thayer, E.P. Thayer, Martin David, D.F. Wheelock, Daniel Husted, H.L. Robinson, and G.W. Kneeland.

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Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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