Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 7 [Nov. 5, 1863-Sept. 12, 1864].

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Title: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 7 [Nov. 5, 1863-Sept. 12, 1864].
Author: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Publication: New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press; 1953.
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[1] ALS, DNA WR RG 107, Presidential Telegrams, I, 159. Governor James Y. Smith's communication about Edward Conley has not been found. AGO Special Orders No. 304, September 14, 1864, ordered: ``The sentence of Sergeant Edward Conley, Company `B,' 19th Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps, `To be shot to death with musketry,' as promulgated in General Court Martial Orders, No. 266, of August 30th, 1864, from this Office, is, by direction of the President . . . commuted to imprisonment in the Clinton Prison, New York, at hard labor, during the war.''