I could freely give my life to save his. Virginia C.
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07-03-2023, 09:46 AM
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RE: I could freely give my life to save his. Virginia C.
(07-03-2023 07:08 AM)Steve Wrote: I found out what happened with Private Clifton. Apparently the review of his court-martial by President Lincoln didn't go particularly well. While the letter from his daughter Virginia may have stopped him from being executed, he was sent to Ft Jefferson in Florida by May 2, 1864. He wasn't released until July 3, 1865, three weeks before Samuel Mudd and the others arrived. Thank you very, very much for doing this, Steve. That is all amazing work. I would never have been able to do anything like this. I was concerned that Private Clifton may have been sentenced to a long prison term and for a period long after the war ended. And, with the assassination of President Lincoln, he might have been lost to his loving family, and he to them, throughout the children's formative years. If so, in practical terms, it would have been as if he had been executed. Again, thank you for your great work and the excellent findings of fact. "So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history." -- Plutarch |
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