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Title: Henry Stanbery to Thomas L. Pratt, 9 November 1866

Date: November 9, 1866

Whitman Archive ID: nar.00166

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Nov. 9, 1866

(Telegram)

Thomas L. Pratt, Esq.

U. S. Attorney, Dover, Del.

Sir:

You will act as a counsel for commandant of Fort Delaware, in Habeas Corpus Cases before Judge Hall, as to prisoners confined at that Fort.

Henry Stanbery,

Attorney General.


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