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Lincoln Pardon altered

Discussion in 'Military History' started by GRW, Jan 26, 2011.

  1. GRW

    GRW Pillboxologist WW2|ORG Editor

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    This seems such a pointless thing to do.
    "Jan. 25, 2011 -- Talk about revisionist history. Thomas Lowry, a long-time Lincoln researcher from Woodbridge, Va., has confessed to altering the date on a pardon issued by President Abraham Lincoln, which is currently part of the permanent records collection of the U.S. National Archives.
    Patrick Murphy, a soldier in the Union Army who was court-martialed for desertion, was pardoned by Lincoln on April 14, 1864. Lowry, however, changed the date to read April 14, 1865, the same day that John Wilkes Booth assassinated the 16th president at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C."
    Lincoln Pardon Altered to Change History: Big Pic : Discovery News
     
  2. brndirt1

    brndirt1 Saddle Tramp

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    I saw that too, I cannot imagine what in the world precipitated this alteration. Other than to have the "last official act" of Lincoln while he was alive. Sad.
     
  3. belasar

    belasar Court Jester

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    no reason is given for his action, but I supect it had to to do with the desire to 'find and publish' something new in the Lincoln lexicon.
     
  4. LRusso216

    LRusso216 Graybeard Staff Member

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    In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny, "What a maroon."
     
  5. formerjughead

    formerjughead The Cooler King

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    That's as bad as colorizing archival film footage of WW2.
     
  6. Biak

    Biak Boy from Illinois Staff Member

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    A Lincoln researcher, from the Confederate State , (I mean Commonwealth) of Virginia, who alters a document of The Great Emancipator? And the South is Risin' Again!
     
  7. R. Evans

    R. Evans Member

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    Yeah, this made no sense at all. Lowry had called into question everything he's ever unearthed or written. Sad really.

    Kind of reminds one of the whole Stephen Ambrose stink from a few years ago.
     

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