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Abraham Lincoln

Amnesty Proclamation

Tuesday Dec 8, 1863
Washington D.C., U.S.

Amnesty Proclamation of December 8, 1863, offered pardons to those who had not held a Confederate civil office and had not mistreated Union prisoners, if they were willing to sign an oath of allegiance.


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