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
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.
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.
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!
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.