Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 8.

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Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 8.
Author
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
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New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press
1953.
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To Andrew Johnson1Jump to section

Gov. Johnson Executive Mansion, Washington,
Nashville, Tenn. Dec. 1, 1864.

I am applied to for the release of Alexander B. Kinney, John P. Carter, and Samuel A. Owens. Your name commending their application to favorable consideration, is on the papers. If you will say directly that you think they ought to be discharged I will discharge them. Answer. A. LINCOLN

Annotation

[1]   ALS, DNA WR RG 107, Presidential Telegrams, I, 251. The telegram is marked by the telegraph clerk ``sent 12.35 pm.'' Governor Johnson replied on December 3, 1864: ``From Representation made to me by persons of reliability & loyalty I should have no hesitancy in releasing Alex B Ramsay [sic], John B [sic] Carter & Saml A Owen the Prisoners named in your dispatch'' (DLC-RTL).

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