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"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 8." In the digital collection Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln8. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 18, 2024.
Judge Advocate General please procure record & report on this case. A. LINCOLN
Feb. 8, 1865
Pardon for unexecuted portion of sentence and discharge the Prisoner. A. LINCOLN
Feb. 16, 1865
Annotation
[1] AES and ES, DNA WR RG 153, Judge Advocate General, LL 2498. Lincoln's first endorsement appears on an envelope and the second on the record in the case of Franklin Wells, citizen of Maryland, sentenced to hard labor for eight years from May 17, 1864, or to be released upon payment of $1,000, on charges of violation of laws and customs of war. Holt recommended that the punishment already inflicted seemed sufficient.