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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Parole and Discharge for Frank L. Wolford1Jump to section

July [c. 17] 1864

I hereby pledge my honor that I will neither do or say anything which will directly or indirectly tend to hinder, delay, or embarrass the employment and use of colored persons, as soldiers, seamen, or otherwise, in the suppression of the rebellion, so long as the U.S. government chooses to so employ and use them.

Col. Frank Wolford is discharged from his parole given me July 7. 1864 and allowed to go at large upon the conditions of the parole by him signed on the other side of the paper. A. LINCOLN

July [c. 17] 1864.

Annotation

[1] AD and ADS copies, DLC-RTL. See preliminary parole for Wolford, July 7, supra. The autograph copy of the parole is written in pencil with ``July 1864'' added by Lincoln in ink. The autograph copy of the discharge is in ink. Two copies of the parole, each presumably bearing the discharge as an endorsement, were enclosed to Speed. These as well as the original letters to Speed and Wolford, infra, have not been discovered.

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