To Edward Bates1Jump to section
My dear Sir: Washington, May 12. 1863.
Please get me up a pardon similar to the one we gave to the son of Gen. Sterling Price, for John Orcutt Carpenter, of Kentucky. Yours truly A LINCOLN
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[1] ALS, DNA RG 204, U.S. Pardon Attorney, A 472. See Lincoln to Bates, November 19, 1862, supra, concerning pardon of Edwin R. Price. No further reference has been found concerning John Orcutt Carpenter.