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Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln

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Auction Date:2010 Nov 10 @ 19:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
War-dated handwritten endorsement as president, “Let this man take the oath of Dec. 8, 1863 & go home. A. Lincoln. Feb. 12, 1865,” on the reverse of a letter sent to Lincoln, signed by ten Kentuckians including D. P. Bedinger, A. B. Samples, A. R. Glascock, Jesse Sadler, and Robert Sadler, requesting permission for a Confederate deserter to return home to Kentucky. The letter reads, “The undersigned Loyal citizens of Nicholas County Kentucky Respectfully Petition your Excellency to grant A. M. Ham permission to return to Kentucky the said Ham joined the Rebel Army in Sept. 1862 and deserted in October 1864 took the amnesty oath at Louisville Ky. Oct 21st 1864 to remain North of the Ohio river during the war we know A.M. Ham to be a man of good moral character and belive [sic] he will have all regard for the Oath he has taken.”

Reverse of the letter also bears an endorsement by Senator Garrett Davis, directly above Lincoln’s, which reads, “I respectfully ask that the within named A. M. Ham be allowed to take the benefit of the amnesty proclamation & return home. Also, that A C Casay [or Casey] a prisoner at Johnson’s Island be allowed to have the benefit of the amnesty proclamation & return home. Garrett Davis.” Left panel of reverse of letter bears a manuscript endorsement signed by Colonel Louis H. Pelouze, Assistant Adjutant General. Endorsement reads, “Respectfully referred to the Commissary General of Prisoners for the execution of the orders of the President. By order of the President. War Dept. Feb. 13/65.” In the right column, Pres. Lincoln’s private secretary, John Hay, has penned: “Hon. Garrett Davis, Washington, DC, no date. Asks that A. M. Ham may take the Oath & go home, and that A. C. Casay a prisoner at Johnson’s Island may be released. Ordered by the President; referred by War Dept for execution.” In very good condition, with show-through from writing on the reverse lightly affecting a portion of Lincoln’s signature and endorsement, a couple small spots of ink erosion, paper loss along bottom edge, and some scattered light toning and soiling.

Dated on Lincoln’s 56th—and final—birthday, this endorsement reflects the internal struggle endured by Kentuckians during the Civil War. After southern states began to secede following Lincoln’s election of Lincoln, Kentucky’s governor proposed that the state should remain in the Union, but also ordered that Kentucky would ‘furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister southern states.’ Although Kentucky officially remained part of the Union, rebel sympathizers in western and central Kentucky moved to establish a Confederate government—with a delegation from western and central Kentucky eventually creating a provisional government making Kentucky the 13th state “admitted” to the Confederacy. Kentucky was represented in the Confederate and U.S. Congresses,with regiments in both the Confederate and Union armies. Both Ham and Casay joined Confederate Kentucky regiments; one deserted and the other was captured. Senator Davis asks that both men be allowed to take the oath prescribed by President Lincoln in 1863 ‘Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction.’ A grand gift from Lincoln on his birthday, just nine weeks before the end of the war and being felled by the assassin’s bullet.
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