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Attorney General will please have a pardon made out for Robert B. Nay, mentioned within. A. LINCOLN
Feb. 13. 1863.
Annotation
[1] AES, DNA RG 204, U.S. Pardon Attorney, A 456. Lincoln's endorsement is written on a letter from Major General Nathaniel P. Banks, January 24, 1863, transmitting the record in the case of Robert B. Nay, former chief of police in New Orleans. See Lincoln to Bates, January 13, supra.