细节
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM, President. Autograph note signed ("A. Lincoln") as President, [Washington, D.C.], 3 May 1864. One page, five lines plus signature and date-line on a small oblong card, 51 x 84mm. (2 x 3 5/16in.), verso blank.
SAFE CONDUCT FOR A VIRGINIAN
"Allow Samuel M. Janney, of Loudon Co., Virginia, to pass into our lines at Point of Rocks, or Berlin, and go to Baltimore. A. Lincoln."
During the war, it was difficult for Southern civilians, many with legitimate business and family affairs in northern cities, to pass the Union lines around Washington, in northern Virginia and in Maryland. The Union troops garrisoning the frontline roads, bridges and ferry landings on the Potomac and elsewhere were notoriously suspicious and were empowered to summarily turn back anyone whom they suspected of harboring rebel sympathies. Nothing is now known of Samuel M. Janney, but Janney was a well-known Loudon County family. Eli Hamilton Janney (1831-1912), of Loudon County, possibly a relative, served on the staffs of Robert E. Lee and Longstreet, attaining the rank of major. John Janney, a delegate to the Virginia Convention, signed the letter offering Lee his commission in April 1861.
SAFE CONDUCT FOR A VIRGINIAN
"Allow Samuel M. Janney, of Loudon Co., Virginia, to pass into our lines at Point of Rocks, or Berlin, and go to Baltimore. A. Lincoln."
During the war, it was difficult for Southern civilians, many with legitimate business and family affairs in northern cities, to pass the Union lines around Washington, in northern Virginia and in Maryland. The Union troops garrisoning the frontline roads, bridges and ferry landings on the Potomac and elsewhere were notoriously suspicious and were empowered to summarily turn back anyone whom they suspected of harboring rebel sympathies. Nothing is now known of Samuel M. Janney, but Janney was a well-known Loudon County family. Eli Hamilton Janney (1831-1912), of Loudon County, possibly a relative, served on the staffs of Robert E. Lee and Longstreet, attaining the rank of major. John Janney, a delegate to the Virginia Convention, signed the letter offering Lee his commission in April 1861.