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[1] ALS, DNA WR RG 107, Presidential Telegrams, I. 57. Governor Johnson's telegram of May 17 stated: ``I am thoroughly satisfied that the amnesty will
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 7 [Nov. 5, 1863-Sept. 12, 1864].
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- Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 7 [Nov. 5, 1863-Sept. 12, 1864].
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- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
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- 1953.
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"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 7 [Nov. 5, 1863-Sept. 12, 1864]." In the digital collection Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/lincoln7. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 22, 2025.
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be serious detriment in organizing the State Govt & that Tenn should be made an exception so far as the army is concerned We have gained all the benefit that can result from it let all the pardons granted to Tennesseans be upon the applications of those deserving it, made directly to the President The influence will be better & they will feel a much greater obligation to the Govt as it now operates its main tendency is to keep alive the Rebel spirit in fact reconciling none this is the opinion of every Real union man here'' (DLC-RTL). If Lincoln wrote a letter ``within a day or two,'' it is presumably not extant.