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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC08942 |
| From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to the 1860s |
| Title | Endorsement of a runaway slave to return to Tennessee to search for his family |
| Date | 20 April 1865 |
| Author | Johnson, Andrew (1808-1875) |
| Additional authors | May, Samuel J. (1797-1871) Sedgwick, Charles Baldwin (1815-1883) Canfield, Sherman B. (d. 1871) Whipple, George (1805-1876) Tappan, Lewis (1788-1873) |
| Document Type | Government document |
| Content Description | President Johnson, five days after taking office endorses the petition of Jermain Westley Loguen, an escaped slave and Underground Railroad conductor, to return to Tennessee to search for family members. Written on the leaf of a 31 March 1865 autograph letter signed in which Samuel May made the request of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. May's letter is also signed by C.B. Sedgewick, Sherman B. Canfield, Reverend George Whipple, and Lewis Tappan. Johnson's endorsement reads: "the within named Rev J. W. Loguen (col'd) of New York is recommended to the favorable consideration of the Civil and Military authorities of the State of Tennessee wither he goes." |
| Subjects | Slavery African American History President Children and Family Runaway Slave Underground Railroad Civil War |
| People | Johnson, Andrew (1808-1875) May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph) (1797-1871) Sedgwick, C. B. (Charles Baldwin) (1815-1883) Canfield, Sherman Bond (d. 1871) Whipple, George (1805-1876) Tappan, Lewis (1788-1873) Stanton, E. M. (Edwin McMasters) (1814-1869) |
| Place written | Washington, D.C. |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Government & Politics; Slavery & Abolition; Children & Family |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945 |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |