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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC01428 |
| From Archive Folder | Unassociated Civil War Documents 1865-1929 |
| Title | Edwin McMasters Stanton to Edwards Pierrepont regarding the activities of Mrs Peirrepont and the Tyler case |
| Date | 7 May 1867 |
| Author | Stanton, Edwin McMasters (1814-1869) |
| Recipient | Pierrepont, Edwards |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Stanton, Secretary of War, updates Pierrepont regarding the activities of Mrs. Peirrepont, who was visiting Washington, D. C. Denies charges leveled in the Tyler case, in which a woman claimed property injury sustained from "Yankee barbarians." |
| Subjects | Lincoln's Cabinet Civil War Women's History Union Forces Wartime Pillaging and Destruction Confederate States of America |
| People | Pierrepont, Edwards (1817-1892) Stanton, E. M. (Edwin McMasters) (1814-1869) Pierrepont, Mrs. Edwards (fl. 1867) |
| Place written | Washington, D.C. |
| Theme | Law; Women in American History |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Additional Information | Pierrepont served as a judge in the New York Supreme Court 1857-1860, as a member of the military commission for the cases of state prisoners in the custody of the federal military authorities during the Civil War, and as United States Attorney General 1875-1876. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
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