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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Page 545

To James Y. Smith1Jump to section

Gov. Smith Executive Mansion Washington, D.C.
Providence, R.I. Sep. 8. 1864

Yours of yesterday about Edward Conley, received. Dont remember receiving anything else from you on the subject. Please telegraph me at once the grounds on which you request his punishment to be commuted. A. LINCOLN

Annotation

[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.''

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