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[1] Leslie J. Perry, ``Appeals to Lincoln's Clemency,'' The Century Magazine, LI (December, 1895), 252. Lloyd W. Brown, the brother of James N. Brown, married Rebecca P. Warfield. According to Perry, ``Henry N. Warfield of Lexington, Ky., a prisoner of war at Camp Douglas, Chicago, in company with other Confederate prisoners made his escape from that military prison on the night of December 2, 1862 [1863?], and made his way to the house of his brother-in-law, Dr. L. W. Brown, who resided thirteen miles east of Jacksonville, Morgan County, Ill. Dr. Brown was a loyal man, and advised Warfield, who was a lad of only eighteen, to surrender himself to the Union military authorities and then take the oath of allegiance. This he did at Jacksonville, after which a petition signed by Governor Yates, Senator Trumbull, E. B. Washburne, I. N. Arnold, and several other political notabilities, was forwarded to the President for his release.'' Orville H. Browning's Diary records under date of December 14, 1863, that he visited Lincoln with Dr. Brown ``to try and get Henry Warfield, a lad of 18 years old, a rebel Prisoner at Camp Douglas, and a brother in law of Dr Brown, committed to the custody of the Dr. Got a preliminary order which was finally completed after passing thro several offices to the Commissary of Prisoners. . . .''