(CIVIL WAR) STANTON EDWIN M Letter Signed as Secretary of Wa

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(CIVIL WAR.) STANTON, EDWIN M. Letter Signed, as Secretary of War, to Attorney General Henry Stanbery, sending a letter from the Secretary of State [William H. Seward; not present] concerning the pardon of a former confederate Quarter Master of VA Mr. Smoot, and requesting that the letter be taken into account when considering the pardon. 2 pages, 4to, "War Department" stationery, written on separate sheets; staining from cello tape reinforcements at left edge of first page, horizontal folds. Washington, 27 December 1866

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". . . This person is represented . . . as having been 'rebel Quarter Master of Virginia, and . . . special agent for the blockade runner "Old Dominion".' His . . . pretended interest [is] in two locomotives seized in Philadelphia in 1864 as they were about to be shipped . . . for the purpose of aiding the insurgents. . . ."