Mar 02, 2023 - Sale 2628

Sale 2628 - Lot 86

Price Realized: $ 7,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
FREEDOM FOR CONFEDERATE PRISONERS LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Clipped portion of Autograph Endorsement dated and Signed, "A. Lincoln," as President: "Let these men take the / oath of Dec. 8, 1863 & be / discharged," removed from a letter likely appealing to him for release of the men. 2x3 1/4 inches, ruled paper; backed, faint bleedthrough from letter written vertically on verso. [Washington], 3 March 1865

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In his "Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction," issued December 8, 1863, Lincoln offered a pardon and restoration of property to all participants in the rebellion against the Union who take an oath (with certain exceptions). The oath specifically requires the "support [of] all acts of congress passed during the existing rebellion with reference to slaves . . . ."