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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 11: (search)
and that President Lincoln wrote Mrs. Bixby a letter full of sympathy and deep feeling, which we had the pleasure of placing in her hands. On the 10th of October, the Governor wrote to the President that the newspapers announced that Private Alfred C. Lawrence, Sixteenth Massachusetts Infantry, had been sentenced to be hanged for desertion, and that General Meade had approved the sentence. The Governor writes,— This man's family has long been in pursuit of him, and get first intelligenhe following letter to them by the Governor, dated Nov. 2, that he was pardoned:— I have the pleasure to forward to you the inclosed copy of Special Order No. 373 of the War Department, announcing the pardon, by the President, of Private Alfred C. Lawrence, and beg leave to congratulate you upon the successful issue of your application. On the 1st of November, the United-States consul at Halifax wrote to Secretary Seward, that it was secretly asserted by secessionists at that place, t