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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC03947 |
| From Archive Folder | Unassociated Civil War Documents 1865-1929 |
| Title | Signatures of Senators and Congressmen requesting a speech by Zachariah Chandler on the topic of Fitz-John Porter |
| Date | 21 February 1870 |
| Author | Chandler, Zachariah (1813-1879)) |
| Additional authors | Ramsey, Alexander (1815-1903); Rice, Benjamin Franklin (1828-1905); Sumner, Charles (1811-1874); Hamlin, Hannibal (1809-1891); Yates, Richard (1815-1873); Schurz, Carl (1829-1906); Buckingham, William Alfred (1804-1875); Cameron, Simon (1799-1889) |
| Document Type | Government document; Legal document |
| Content Description | Signed by 39 Senators and Congressmen, including Alexander Ramsey, Benjamin Franklin Rice, Charles Sumner, Hannibal Hamlin, Richard Yates, Carl Schurz, and Simon Cameron. Speeches ordered are to be printed at the Congressional Globe Office. Nine of the signers voted for and signed the 13th Amendment in 1865. The remaining signers are: Zachariah Chandler, Jacob Merritt Howard, Alexander McDonald, Matthew Hale Carpenter, William Alfred Buckingham, James Bruen Howell, James Warren Nye, John Spafford Harris, Reuben Eaton Fenton, William Pitt Kellogg, Abijah Gilbert, Thomas Ward Osborn, George Eliphaz Spencer, Henry Winslow Corbett, Timothy Otis Howe, [John Scott], [illegible], Frederick Adolphus Sawyer, Justin Smith Morrill, Willard Warner, Joseph Carter Abbott, Charles Daniel Drake, George Henry Williams, Lot Myrick Morrill, William Morris Stewart, Henry Bowen Anthony, Omar Dwight Conger, Thomas White Ferry, [Benjamin Franklin Butler], William Hepburn Armstrong, Calvin Willard Gilfillan, William Lewis Stoughton |
| Subjects | Congress Government and Civics Civil War Printing Union Forces Union General |
| People | Chandler, Zachariah (1813-1879) Ramsey, Alexander (1815-1903) Rice, Benjamin Franklin (1828-1905) Sumner, Charles (1811-1874) Hamlin, Hannibal (1809-1891) Yates, Richard (1815-1873) Schurz, Carl (1829-1906) Buckingham, William A. (William Alfred) (1804-1875) Cameron, Simon (1799-1889) Porter, Fitz John (1822-1901) |
| Place written | Washington, D.C. |
| Theme | Reconstruction; Law; Government & Politics |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |