Hiram Hibbard pardon

[RJNorton]

Many thanks to Steve for sending these articles. Steve writes, "One is an image of the forged version of the Hibbard pardon. For comparison, I've included another image of a genuine Lincoln letter written to Rev. Henry Ward Beecher around the time Hibbard was pardoned. I've also included a July 3, 1904 Decatur Herald which mentions the Hibbard pardon being shown with other Lincoln relics in a display put on by the Illinois State Historical Society for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 St. Louis World's Fair). For clarity's sake I've also included a cropped snippet from the article which mentions Hibbard.