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[1] AES, CSmH. Lincoln's endorsement is written on a letter of Reuben Shultz, Gentry County, Missouri, to Representative Austin A. King, January 21, 1864, asking executive clemency. Shultz had been a member of the Secession Legislature at Neosho, Missouri, in 1861.